[Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookLittle Dorrit CHAPTER 6 3/22
In general, more no than yes.
'What like is she, you see ?' he philosophically asked: 'that's what it hinges on.' 'She is very delicate and inexperienced indeed.' 'That,' said the turnkey, 'is agen her.' 'She is so little used to go out alone,' said the debtor, 'that I am at a loss to think how she will ever make her way here, if she walks.' 'P'raps,' quoth the turnkey, 'she'll take a ackney coach.' 'Perhaps.' The irresolute fingers went to the trembling lip.
'I hope she will.
She may not think of it.' 'Or p'raps,' said the turnkey, offering his suggestions from the the top of his well-worn wooden stool, as he might have offered them to a child for whose weakness he felt a compassion, 'p'raps she'll get her brother, or her sister, to come along with her.' 'She has no brother or sister.' 'Niece, nevy, cousin, serwant, young 'ooman, greengrocer .-- Dash it! One or another on 'em,' said the turnkey, repudiating beforehand the refusal of all his suggestions. 'I fear--I hope it is not against the rules--that she will bring the children.' 'The children ?' said the turnkey.
'And the rules? Why, lord set you up like a corner pin, we've a reg'lar playground o' children here. Children! Why we swarm with 'em.
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