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'My sister, lad to see your sister, Miss Dorrit I did not remember that you

had a sister' 'I did not mention that I had,' said Fanny 'Ah!'

Mrs Merdle curled the little finger of her left hand as who should

say, 'I have caught you I know you didn't!' All her action was usually

with her left hand because her hands were not a pair; and left being

much the whiter and plumper of the two Then she added: 'Sit down,' and

coold cushions,

on an ottoman near the parrot 'Also professional?' said Mrs Merdle, looking at Little Dorrit through

an eye-glass Fanny answered No 'No,' said Mrs Merdle, dropping her glass 'Has not a

professional air Very pleasant; but not professional'

'My sister, ularme to tell her, as between

sisters, how I caed to call upon you onceher with me, when perhaps you would tell her I wish her to

know, and perhaps you will tell her?' 'Do you think, at your sister's

age--' hinted Mrs Merdle

'She is much older than she looks,' said Fanny; 'almost as old as I am'

'Society,' said Mrs Merdle, with another curve of her little finger,