Little Dorrit Vol.1 f.043 recto

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presented to his wife; the sleeping Flintwinch was in profile. The waking Flintwinch became impatient
while Affery [????]
was the mad old original; the sleeping Flintwinch was the double. Just as she [?????] might have [????]
the [?????]
distinguished between a [?????] the [????] a tangible object and a reflection of its reflection in a glass, Affery made
out this [?distinction?] difference with her head going round and round.

[????] Mr. Flintwinch [?? ??? ???? ?? ????] If she had had any [?lingering?] [??????? ?????????] doubt which was her
own particular Flintwinch Jeremiah, she was it would have been resolved by his impatience. He looked
about him for an offensive weapon, caught up the snuffers, and before applying them to the cabbage-headed
candle lunged at the sleeper as though he would have run him through the body. if he had kept [?????]

[D?]“Who’s that? What’s the matter?” cried the sleeper, starting.

Mr Flintwinch upon this Upon this made a sudden Mr Flintwinch [?? ?????] this made a movement with the snuffers, as if he would have enforced
enforced [??????] silence on [??? ?????????] his companion by putting them down his throat; and upon that, his the companion [????] came to
himself, and said, rubbing his eyes, “I forgot where I was.”

“You have been asleep,” said snarled Jeremiah, "[????] mo[???] referring to his watch, “two hours. You said you
[???? ???] yourself would be sufficiently rested enough if you had a short nap.”

“I have had a short nap," said the double returned said Double.

[?][????] Half-past two o’clock in the morning,” muttered [?????] muttered Jeremiah. “[??? ????? ??? ????] Where’s your hat? Where’s your coat?
Where’s the box?”

Here they are All here,” said Double, tying himself up his throat with a sleepy carefulness in a shawl.
“Stop a minute. Now give me the sleeve—not that sleeve, the other one. Ha! ?? I’m not as young as I was.” Mr
Flintwinch had in the mean time pulled him into his coat with a [??????????] vehement viciousness. “You promised
a me second glass after I was rested.”

Jeremiah“Drink it!” said returned Jeremiah, “and go." at the same time he produced the [????? ??? ??] he spoke choke yourself, I was going to say—

remainder of [??????] but go, I mean.” as [?? ???] at the same time he produced the identical port-wine bottle, and poured out filled a glassful wine-glass.

“Her port-wine, I believe?” said Double, tasting it as if he were in the Docks, with hours to spare. “Her health.”

He took a sip.

“Your health!”

He took another sip.

“His health!”

He [?took another sip?] took another sip.

“And all friends round St Paul’s. not forgetting the - the Trunkmaker at the corner ” He emptied and put down
the wine-glass half-way through this ancient civic toast, and took up the box [?and ???? ???] as an illustration
of the remaining clause. It was not a trunk, however, but an
It was an iron box some two feet square, which he
carried under his arms pretty easily. Jeremiah watched his manner of adjusting it, with jealous eyes; tried it with
his hands, to be sure that he had [?it firmly in?] a firm hold of it; bade him for his life be careful
what he was about; and then stole out on tiptoe to open the door for him. Mrs Flint- Affery, antici-
-pating the last movement, was on the staircase. The sequence of things in her dream was so
[???] ordinary and natural, that, standing there, she could hear the door open and ??? open, feel the night air, and see the
stars outside.

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jboyall

Dickens's page numbering is incorrect at this point. His numbers 33 and 34 should be reversed.