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At some period of every day, he and Mrs Clennam held

a council on matters of business; and it appeared to Affery, as

always groping about, listening and watching, that the two clever ones

weremoney The state of mind into which Mr Flintwinch's dazed lady had fallen, had

now begun to be so expressed in all her looks and actions that she was

held in very low account by the two clever ones, as a person, never

of strong intellect, as beco foolish Perhaps because her

appearance was not of a commercial cast, or perhaps because it occurred

to himent to

doubt in the minds of customers, Mr Flintwinch laid his commands upon

her that she should hold her peace on the subject of her conjugal

relations, and should no longer call hietfulness of this admonition intensified her

startledhis after her on the staircase, and shaking

her, occasioned her to be always nervously uncertain when she ht be

thus waylaid next