[Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookLittle Dorrit CHAPTER 10 18/43
Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know,' remonstrated Barnacle junior, turning about and putting up the eye-glass. 'I want to know,' said Arthur Clennam, who had made up his mind to persistence in one short form of words, 'the precise nature of the claim of the Crown against a prisoner for debt, named Dorrit.' 'I say.
Look here.
You really are going it at a great pace, you know. Egad, you haven't got an appointment,' said Barnacle junior, as if the thing were growing serious. 'I want to know,' said Arthur, and repeated his case. Barnacle junior stared at him until his eye-glass fell out, and then put it in again and stared at him until it fell out again.
'You have no right to come this sort of move,' he then observed with the greatest weakness.
'Look here.
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