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Chapter 34. A Shoal of Barnacles

           

           TherewasMrTiteBarnacle,fromtheCircumlocutionOffice,andMewsStreet,GrosvenorSquare,withtheexpensiveMrsTiteBarnacleneeStiltstalking,whomadetheQuarterDayssolongincoming,andthethreeexpensiveMissTiteBarnacles,double-loadedwithaccomplishmentsandreadytogooff,andyetnotgoingoffwiththesharpnessofflashandbangthatmighthavebeenexpected,butratherhangingfire.TherewasBarnaclejunior,alsofromtheCircumlocutionOffice,leavingtheTonnageofthecountry,whichhewassomehowsupposedtotakeunderhisprotection,tolookafteritself,and,soothtosay,notatallimpairingtheefficiencyofitsprotectionbyleavingitalone.TherewastheengagingYoungBarnacle,derivingfromthesprightlysideofthefamily,alsofromtheCircumlocutionOffice,gailyandagreeablyhelpingtheoccasionalong,andtreatingit,inhissparklingway,asoneoftheofficialformsandfeesoftheChurchDepartmentofHownottodoit.TherewerethreeotherYoungBarnaclesfromthreeotheroffices,insipidtoallthesenses,andterriblyinwantofseasoning,doingthemarriageastheywouldhave‘done’theNile,OldRome,thenewsinger,orJerusalem.

           Buttherewasgreatergamethanthis.TherewasLordDecimusTiteBarnaclehimself,intheodourofCircumlocution—withtheverysmellofDespatch-Boxesuponhim.

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