New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-19


still standing between you. SO will and in fair
ness / require to have that plainly put forward
Arthur, You please TO hear that you have no right to
misrust your father and have ground 10 20 upon
| He putt hs hands to the back Of the wheeled chair
and muttered 20 himself slowly wheeled his misiress
| back TO her cabinet. Now, be resumed, standing
behind her; IL should 90 away leaving thing
! half done and 20 -houd be wanted again when you
come to tho other half ard get into Of your flights
has Arthur tod you What he means to do about the
| business
'He bss renquisbed it,"
" In favor Of nobody. suppose ~
| Ms. Clennan glanced at her son. leaning against
one of the Windows. He observed the look, and said
| "TO my mother of course She does what she
| please"
And if any pleasure she said after short pause,
could arise for me out Of the disappointment of my
expectations that my son in the prime Of biz life would
infuse youth and strength into IT, and make II OF
great profit and power IT would be in advancing an
old and faithful servant. Jeremiah the captain de-
serts tie ship but you and will sink ioet with H..
Jeremiah, whose eye glistened as if they saw money,
dared sudden look al the son, which seemed 10 say
81 owe yOu thanks for this; yOH have done
nothing towards il :" and then the mother that he
thanked her and that Artery thanked her, and that he
would never desert her, and that Artery would
never desert her. Finally, he bauled up his watch
from it, depths said g Eleven. Time for your oys-
ters and With that change of subject which involved
no change Of expression or manner, rang the oel.
But Mr.. Cennan resolved to reat herself with the
greater riger for having been supposed to BE- unac
0uaiuted with PREPARATION, refused to eat her oysters
when they brought. They looked tempting eight
il number crculary set out white plate on tray
covered with white napkin, ianked by a slice of
butered French roll. and little compact glass of cool
wine and water but she resisted all persuas,on., and
sent them down aganplaciug the act 20 her credit,
| doubt, in her Eternal Day Book.
This rejection Of oysters not presided Owe by
| Artery, but by the girl who had appeared when tie
bell was rung the same who lad been in the dimly
lighted room last night. Now that he had an opportu-
nv of observing her, Arthur found that her dmlnuve
figure, small features and slight spare dress gave her
the appearance of being much younger than she
was A woman probably of not less than two and
twenty -he might have been passed in the street for
little than half that age. Not that her face was
yery youthful for in truth there considera-
ton and care III than naturally her utmost
years but she solite and light so noEelcSs and
shy and appeared conscious of being out OF place
among the three hard elders, that che had all the man
ner and much Of the appearance OF suodued chld.
In hard way and IN an uncertain way that
fuctuated between patronage and putting down, the
sprinkln from wateringpot and hydraulic pressure,
Mr.. Cennam showed an interest IN this dependant.
Even in the of her entrance upon the violent
ringing of the bell when the mother shielded herself
with that singular action from the son, Mrs. Cennams
eyes had lad individual recognition IN them,
which seemed reserved for her As there are degrees
Of hardness in the hardest metal, and shades of color IN
black itself So, even in the aperlty OF Ms ClenndIn
demeanOur towards al the rest of humanity and to-
wards Little Dorri there was a fine gradation.
Little DON'T let herself out to do needlewGk. AT
so much a day-or ct 20 little-from eight to eight,
Little Dorit to be hired Punctua to the moment,
Little Dorrit appeared; punctua to the moment, Little
Dort vanished. What became of Little Dor1t be-
tween the two cights, III Htery.
Another of the moral phenomena OF Little Dorrt
Besides her consideration money, her daily contract
included meals She had an extraordinary repentance
to dining in company would never do so, II were
possible to escape. Would always plead that she had
this bit Of work to begin frst, that bit OF work to
| finish first; and would of certainty, scheme and
plan-not very cunningy it would seem, for she de-
| ceived no ono-to dine alone. Successful in this;
| happy in carrying off her plate anywhere to make
table of her lap, box, or the ground, or even a.
supposed, to stand on tiptoe dining moderately
st q IDantekhelf the great anxiety OF Little DOTrlt'5
| day set at rest.
1t was not easy to make out Little Loits face; she
was 70 retiring, piled her needle in such removed cor
nerS and started away scared If encountered on the
stairs But il seemed to be pale transparent face,
quick in EXPRESSION though not beautiful IN feature its
soft hazel eyes excepted. delicstey bent head,
shabby drsss- must needs have been very shabby to
look at all being 80 neat-were Little DorIlt a. she
sat at work.
For these particulars generalities concerning Lit
tie Dorrt Mr.. Arthur indebted in the course OF
the day to his own eyes and to Mrs. Aferys tongue
If Mr.. Artery had had any will way of her own,
would probably have been unfavorabe TO Little DOT
| rit But as "them two clever ones'-Mrs Aherys
per,etual reference, in whom her personality was
swallowed up-were agreed to accept Little Dorrit rs
matter of course abe had nothing for It but to foi'
low suit Similarly if the two clever ones had agreed
| 10 murder Little DorTit by candle-igh Mrs Ahery,
| being required to hold the candle, would no doubt
| have done It,
| In the intervals of roasting the partridge for the IN
| valid chamber, and preparing baking-dlsh OF beef
and budding for the dining-room, Mrs. Anery made
| the Communications above set forth invariably put
ting her head in at the door again after she had taken
il out TO enforce resistance 10 the two clever ones IL
appcarcd TO have become perfect passion with MR.
| Flutwnch that the only son should be pted against
| them, =,
In the course of the day, too Arthur looked through
| the whole house. Dull and dark he found it. The
gaunt rooms deserted for years upon years, seemed
| 10 have settled down into gloomy legarthy
from which nothing could arouse them again.
| The furniture at once spare and numbering
| hid in the rooms rather than furnished them,
| and there was no color in all the house; such
| color a. had ever been there, had long ago
| started away on lost sunbeams-got itself absorbed,
perhaps into flowers, butterflies, plunmage OF Dirds,
precious stones, what not. There was not one straight
floor from the foundation to the roof The ceilings were
| so Enthusiastically couded by smoke and dust, that Old
women might have told fortunes IN them, better than
in erouts of tea; the dead-cOld heaIths showed no
traces of having been warmed, but IN heaps OF
SCOT that had tumbed down the chmneys, and eddied
about in little dusky whrwlnds when the dOors were
| opened In what had been drwing-rOom, there
pain of meagre mirrors, with dismal proces,ioh7
| of black figures carrying black garlands, walking
round the frames; but even these were short OF
| head. ard legs and one undertaker-ke Cupid had
| swung round on hi own axis and got upside
| down, and another had fallen off altogether. Inc
room Arthur Gennam's deceased father had occupied
for business PURPOSES when be first remembered him,
was so unatered that he might have been imagined
still to keep inyisbly, e. his Visible relct kept her
room up.stairs Jeremiah Flint winch still going be-
tween them negotiating. His picture, dark aud
| gloomy earnestly speeches. on the wall, WIN me
ewes intenty looking at his son as they had looked
| when life departed from them seemed TO urge him
awfully to the task he Rad attempted but as
to any Welding on the part OF his mother, he had