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'I don't care whether there's one or a dozen,' said Mr Flintwinch,

forcibly suggesting in his tone that the higher number was nearer the

mark 'If there was fifty, they should all say, None of your nonsense

with me, I won't take it from you--I'd make 'em say it, whether they

liked it or not' 'What have I done, you wrathfulvoice asked 'Done?' said Mr Flintwinch 'Dropped down upon me' 'If you mean, remonstrated with you--'

'Don't put words intoto his figurative expression with tenacious and impenetrable

obstinacy: 'I mean dropped down upon me'

'I reain, 'because--' 'I won't have it!' cried Jeremiah 'You dropped down upon me' 'I dropped down upon you, then, you ill-conditionedforced her to adopt his phrase,) 'for having been

needlessly significant to Arthur that ht to

complain of it as almost a breach of confidence You did not mean it--'

'I won't have it!' interposed the contradictory Jere back

the concession 'I did mean it'

'I suppose I must leave you to speak in soliloquy if you choose,' she

replied, after a pause that seeold man who has a set purpose