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'By no means,' Mrs General interposed 'I was quite at your disposition

I had had ain, with the nificent

placidity of one as above correction, 'to solicit the favour of

a little private conversation with you, because I feel rather worried

respecting reat

difference of tehters?'

Said Mrs General in response, crossing her gloved hands (she was never

without gloves, and they never creased and always fitted), 'There is a

great difference' 'May I ask to be favoured with your view of it?' said Mr Dorrit, with a

deference not incompatible with majestic serenity

'Fanny,' returned Mrs General, 'has force of character and

self-reliance Amy, none' None?

O Mrs General, ask the Marshalsea stones and bars O Mrs General,

ask the -ht her sister to dance O Mrs General, Mrs General, ask me, her

father, what I owe her; and hear hted little creature from her childhood up!

No such adjuration entered Mr Dorrit's head He looked at Mrs

General, seated in her usual erect attitude on her coach-box behind the