And that's the reason why so many go there.' Mr Meagles very hot indeed again.
'What I mean is, that however this comes to be the regular way of our government, it is its regular way.

Have you ever heard of any projector or inventor who failed to find it all but inaccessible, and whom it did not discourage and ill-treat ?' 'I cannot say that I ever have.' 'Have you ever known it to be beforehand in the adoption of any useful thing?
Ever known it to set an example of any useful kind ?' 'I am a good deal older than my friend here,' said Mr Meagles, 'and I'll answer that.

Never.' 'But we all three have known, I expect,' said the inventor, 'a pretty many cases of its fixed determination to be miles upon miles, and years upon years, behind the rest of us; and of its being found out persisting in the use of things long superseded, even after the better things were well known and generally taken up ?' They all agreed upon that.
'Well then,' said Doyce, with a sigh, 'as I know what such a metal will do at such a temperature, and such a body under such a pressure, so I may know (if I will only consider), how these great lords and gentlemen will certainly deal with such a matter as mine.
I have no right to be surprised, with a head upon my shoulders, and memory in it, that I fall into the ranks with all who came before me.

I ought to have let it alone.

I have had warning enough, I am sure.' With that he put up his spectacle-case, and said to Arthur, 'If I don't complain, Mr Clennam, I can feel gratitude; and I assure you that I feel it towards our mutual friend.