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With Barnacle junior, he signified his desire to confer; and found that

young gentles at the parental fire,

and supporting his spine against the mantel-shelf It was a coher official estions of the absent Barnacle, in the thick carpet, the

leather-covered desk to sit at, the leather-covered desk to stand at,

the for, the interposed screen, the

torn-up papers, the dispatch-boxes with little labels sticking out of

the s air of How not to do it

The present Barnacle, holding Mr Clennam's card in his hand, had a

youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever

was seen Such a downy tip was on his callow chin, that he see bird; and a coed

that, if he had not singed the calves of his legs, he would have died

of cold He had a superior eye-glass dangling round his neck, but

unfortunately had such flat orbits to his eyes and such limp little

eyelids that it wouldn't stick in when he put it up, but kept tuainst his waistcoat buttons with a click that discomposed him very