[Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookLittle Dorrit CHAPTER 10 25/43
Then you'll memorialise that Department (according to regular forms which you'll find out) for leave to memorialise this Department.
If you get it (which you may after a time), that memorial must be entered in that Department, sent to be registered in this Department, sent back to be signed by that Department, sent back to be countersigned by this Department, and then it will begin to be regularly before that Department.
You'll find out when the business passes through each of these stages by asking at both Departments till they tell you.' 'But surely this is not the way to do the business,' Arthur Clennam could not help saying. This airy young Barnacle was quite entertained by his simplicity in supposing for a moment that it was.
This light in hand young Barnacle knew perfectly that it was not.
This touch and go young Barnacle had 'got up' the Department in a private secretaryship, that he might be ready for any little bit of fat that came to hand; and he fully understood the Department to be a politico-diplomatic hocus pocus piece of machinery for the assistance of the nobs in keeping off the snobs.
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