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Chapt 34.2
CHAPTER IV.
Mrs Flintwinch's dream has a dream

When Jeremiah? ?????? Mr Mrs Flintwinch dreamed, he? she usually dreamed, unlike the son of his her old ??? master mistress, with his her
eyes shut. He ?ic? ?? nothing? also? with his eyes open but he dreamed with his eyes shut ???? She had ? a very ?singular? ?viv??????? ?? ??? ???? ???? dream that ????? a curiously vivid dream that night, and before
she had left [?the son of her old master?] [?before?] the son of her old master mistress many hours. [?Her vision?] It happened in this wise.

The [?night-time? chamber of?] bed-chamber occupied by Mr and Mrs Flintwinch was [?on the same floor as ?? ?? with?] within a few paces of
that to which Mrs Clennam had been so long confined. It was not exactly on the same floor, for it was a room
at the side of the [?old ?? ???????] house, which was approached by a steep [??? ascent of?] descent of [a ??] a few odd steps, [?but diverged?] diverging from the
main staircase opposite nearly opposite to Mrs Clennam’s door. It could [???] [??????] scarcely be said to be within
call, the walls were so thick and the [of the old ???? ??? ?????], doors, and panelling [????] of the old place were so cumbrous; but it was within easy reach, in any undress, in
any weather at any hour of the night, in any temperature. At Mrs Flintwinch's the head of the bed and
within a foot of Mrs Flintwinch’s ear, was a bell, the line of which hung ready to [???? ??????] [??? ???? up?]
[?hand?] Mrs Clennam’s hand. Whenever this bell rang, up started Mrs Flintwinch Affery, and [??? ???] [?s?????? into?] was in the
sick room in a moment before she was awake.

Having got her mistress into bed, lighted her lamp, and given her good night, [?????] Mrs Flintwinch
[???????? ??????? ?took herself to her own room?] [??? Flintwinch ???? ????? ?? ??? ????? ?? ?Affery?] went to roost as usual, saving that her lord had not yet appeared.
[Her ???? the ?night? before? ?????] It was her lord himself who became—[???????] unlike the last theme in
the mind, [?whether?] according to the [??????? ?????????] [???? of ?????] observation of [?philosophers?] most philosophers [???]—the subject of Affery's Mrs Flintwinch Mrs Flintwinch’s dream.

Affery It seemed to her that she awoke after [?have ???? in ?bed?] sleeping some [?hours?] hours,
and [????? ??????? not yet?] [????? ??????] found Jeremiah not yet abed. That she looked at the candle she
had left burning, [?and measure?] and, measuring the time like [?the ????] King Alfred the Great, was confirmed by its wasted state [?and ????]
in [her ?experience?] her [???] belief that she had been asleep for some considerable time . That she [???? ????????] arose
thereupon, muffled herself up in a wrapper, [?put?] put on her shoes, and went out on the staircase, much surprised,
[?? ???? ????] [?? ???? ??? ??? ?? ?????? quest of?] to look for Jeremiah.

The staircase was as wooden and solid as need be, and [???? it Mrs Flintwinch] Affery
[????? ????? ?????] went straight down it without any of those deviations [?????? ?????? ???] peculiar to dreams. She
walked> did not skim over it, but walked down it, and guided herself by the banisters on account
of her candle having died out. [In one ??????? of] In one corner of the hall, [?????] behind the [?????] house-door, there was a little waiting-room, like a well-
shaft, with a long narrow window in it as if its it had been ripped up. [?A ????? ?? ??????? ??? ??? from?] [???? ?????? ?????] In
[???] this [????] [?????] room, which was never used, a light [????] was [????ing] [/g????ing] burning.

Mrs Flintwinch crossed the hall, feeling its pavement cold to her stockingless feet, and [?looked?] peeped in
between the rusty hinges on the door, which stood a little open. [?expecting? ???? old?? She expected to ?expecting?] She expected to see
Jeremiah fast asleep or [??? ???? ???? ?? ????] [????? ???] in a fit, [?if not dead. Nothing of the kind. He was sitting] but he was calmly seated in a chair, [?????????] awake, and
[?awake?] in [?excellent?] his usual health. But what—[oh?] hey?—Lord forgive us!—[???? ????] Mrs Flintwinch [?in?]
[???? ????? ??????] muttered something ejaculation [???] to this effect, in her dream and turned [??? ?????] giddy.

For, [???????? ?????? she had an impression that her [???] husband was sitting?] Jeremiah Mr Flintwinch awake, was watching Mr Flintwinch asleep. [?Then he ????? the ????] He sat on one
side of the small table, looking [?with his?]keenly at himself on the other side [???] with his [?head?] chin sunk on his
breast, snoring. The waking [Flintwinch had ??????????? was?] Flintwinch had his full front face