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'Mr Clennam?' said Mr Barnacle 'Be seated' Mr Clennam became seated

'You have called on me, I believe,' said Mr Barnacle, 'at the

Circu it the air of a word of about five-and-twenty

syllables--'Office' 'I have taken that liberty'

Mr Barnacle solemnly bent his head as who should say, 'I do not deny

that it is a liberty; proceed to take another liberty, and let me know

your business' 'Allow me to observe that I have been for soer at home, and have no personal motive or interest in the

inquiry I aers on the table, and, as if he were now

sitting for his portrait to a new and strange artist, appeared to say

to his visitor, 'If you will be good enough to take ed'

'I have found a debtor in the Marshalsea Prison of the name of Dorrit,

who has been there ate his confused

affairs so far as to ascertain whether it may not be possible, after

this lapse of time, to ameliorate his unhappy condition The name of

Mr Tite Barnacle has been hly