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His patronage did not stop here; for he charged Maggy to get the tea

ready, and instructed her to buy certain tea-cakes, fresh butter,

eggs, cold haave her a

bank-note for ten pounds, laying strict injunctions on her to be careful

of the change These preparations were in an advanced stage of progress,

and his daughter Amy had come back with her work, when Clennaraciously received, and besought to join their

meal

'Amy, my love, you know Mr Clenna Fanny, my dear, you are acquainted with Mr Clennahtily; the position she tacitly took up in all such

cases being that there was a vast conspiracy to insult the fa to it, and here was one of

the conspirators 'This, Mr Clennam, you must know, is an old pensioner of mine, Old

Nandy, a very faithful old reat antiquity, but he o or three years younger than himself)

'Let hter Amy has

mentioned to me that you know poor Plornish?'

'O yes!' said Arthur Clennalad to see hiood qualities, Mr