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A frequently recurring doubt, whether Mr Pancks's desire to collect

information relative to the Dorrit fas he had i exile, caused Arthur Clennam much uneasiness at this

period

What Mr Pancks already knew about the Dorrit family, what more

he really wanted to find out, and why he should trouble his busy head

about them at all, were questions that often perplexed him Mr Pancks

was not a man to waste his time and trouble in researches prompted by

idle curiosity

That he had a specific object Clennam could not doubt

And whether the attain to light, in some untimely way, secret reasons which had induced

his mother to take Little Dorrit by the hand, was a serious speculation

Not that he ever wavered either in his desire or his deter that had been done in his father's tiht, and be reparable The shadow of a supposed act

of injustice, which had hung over hiue and forht be the result of a reality widely

remote from his idea of it But, if his apprehensions should prove to