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Chapter 33. Mrs Merdle’s Complaint

           True,theHamptonCourtBohemians,withoutexception,turneduptheirnosesatMerdleasanupstart;buttheyturnedthemdownagain,byfallingflatontheirfacestoworshiphiswealth.Inwhichcompensatingadjustmentoftheirnoses,theywereprettymuchlikeTreasury,Bar,andBishop,andalltherestofthem.

           ToMrsMerdle,MrsGowanrepairedonavisitofself-condolence,afterhavinggiventhegraciousconsentaforesaid.Shedroveintotownforthepurposeinaone-horsecarriageirreverentlycalledatthatperiodofEnglishhistory,apill-box.Itbelongedtoajob-masterinasmallway,whodroveithimself,andwhojobbeditbytheday,orhour,tomostoftheoldladiesinHamptonCourtPalace;butitwasapointofceremony,inthatencampment,thatthewholeequipageshouldbetacitlyregardedastheprivatepropertyofthejobberforthetimebeing,andthatthejob-mastershouldbetraypersonalknowledgeofnobodybutthejobberinpossession.SotheCircumlocutionBarnacles,whowerethelargestjob-mastersintheuniverse,alwayspretendedtoknowofnootherjobbutthejobimmediatelyinhand.

           MrsMerdlewasathome,andwasinhernestofcrimsonandgold,withtheparrotonaneighbouringstemwatchingherwithhisheadononeside,asifhetookherforanothersplendidparrotofalargerspecies.TowhomenteredMrsGowan,withherfavouritegreenfan,whichsoftenedthelightonthespotsofbloom.

           ‘Mydearsoul,’saidMrsGowan,tappingthebackofherfriend’shandwiththisfanafteralittleindifferentconversation,‘youaremyonlycomfort.

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