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Little Dorrit

CHAPTER 5
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Smite Thou my debtors, Lord, wither them, crush them; do Thou as I would do, and Thou shalt have my worship: this was the impious tower of stone she built up to scale Heaven.
'Have you finished, Arthur, or have you anything more to say to me?
I think there can be nothing else.

You have been short, but full of matter!' 'Mother, I have yet something more to say.

It has been upon my mind, night and day, this long time.

It is far more difficult to say than what I have said.

That concerned myself; this concerns us all.' 'Us all! Who are us all ?' 'Yourself, myself, my dead father.' She took her hands from the desk; folded them in her lap; and sat looking towards the fire, with the impenetrability of an old Egyptian sculpture.
'You knew my father infinitely better than I ever knew him; and his reserve with me yielded to you.


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