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'Acquainted with any of her family?' returned Pancks 'How should you be

acquainted with any of her family? You never heard of 'em You can't

be acquainted with people you never heard of, can you? You should think

not!' All this ti his

head benevolently, as the case required

'As to being a reference,' said Pancks, 'you know, in a general way,

what being a reference means It's all your eye, that is! Look at your

tenants down the Yard here They'd all be references for one another,

if you'd let 'e 'em? It's no

satisfaction to be done by two ets another person who can't pay, to guarantee

that he can pay Like a person with tooden legs getting another

person with tooden legs, to guarantee that he has got two natural

legs It don'ts are more troublesome to you than then you don't want

any' Mr Pancks concluded by blowing off that steam of his

A momentary silence that ensued was broken by Mr F's Aunt, who had been

sitting upright in a cataleptic state since her last public remark She

now underwent a violent twitch, calculated to produce a startling effect

on the nerves of the uninitiated, and with the deadliest animosity