CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

FURTHER PROCEEDINGS IN EDEN, AND A PROCEEDING OUT OF IT. MARTIN MAKES A DISCOVERY OF SOME IMPORTANCE

From Mr Moddle to Eden is an easy and natural transition. Mr Moddle, living in the atmosphere of Miss Pecksniff's love, dwelt (if he had but known it) in a terrestrial Paradise. The thriving city of Eden was also a terrestrial Paradise, upon the showing of its proprietors. The beautiful Miss Pecksniff might have been poetically described as a something too good for man in his fallen and degraded state. That was exactly the character of the thriving city of Eden, as poetically heightened by Zephaniah Scadder, General Choke, and other worthies; part and parcel of the talons of that great American Eagle, which is always airing itself sky-high in purest aether, and never, no never, never, tumbles down with draggled wings into the mud.

When Mark Tapley, leaving Martin in the architectural and surveying offices, had effectually strengthened and encouraged his own spirits by the contemplation of their joint misfortunes, he proceeded, with new cheerfulness, in search of help; congratulating himself, as he went along, on the enviable position to which he had at last attained.

'I used to think, sometimes,' said Mr Tapley, 'as a desolate island would suit me, but I should only have had myself to provide for there, and being naturally a easy man to manage, there wouldn't have been much credit in THAT. Now here I've got my partner to take care on, and he's something like the sort of man for the purpose. I want a man as is always a-sliding off his legs when he ought to be on 'em. I want a man as is so low down in the school of life that he's always a-making figures of one in his copy-book, and can't get no further. I want a man as is his own great coat and cloak, and is always a-wrapping himself up in himself. And I have got him too,' said Mr Tapley, after a moment's silence. 'What a happiness!'

1. Was Miss Pecksniff ugly?
2. How was she described?
3. What did the narrator describe her as being too good for?
4. What did Mr Tapley say he used to think would suit him?
5. What is an easy transition?
6. What is Eden?
7. Who proceeded in search of help?
8. Was he happy about it?
9. Who did he congratulate?
10. About what?
11. What kind of man did Mr Tapley say he wanted?
12. And what else would the man be?
13. Did he say he already had him?
14. Where did Mr Moddle live?
15. Who poetically heightened the character of Eden?
16. And who else?
17. What is always airing itself sky-high?
18. Does it ever tumble down?
19. Where did Tapley leave Martin?
20. And what had he made stronger?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. no
2. The beautiful Miss Pecksniff
3. man in his fallen and degraded state
4. a desolate island
5. no
6. city
7. Mark Tapley
8. yes
9. himself
10. the enviable position to which he had at last attained
11. is always a-sliding off his legs when he ought to be on 'em.
12. as is so low down in the school of life
13. yes
14. in a terrestrial Paradise
15. Zephaniah Scadder
16. General Choke, and other worthies
17. great American Eagle
18. no
19. architectural and surveying offices
20. the contemplation of their joint misfortunes