[Bleak House by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBleak House CHAPTER IX 28/31
Blest with your hand, what means might I not find of advancing your interests and pushing your fortunes! What might I not get to know, nearly concerning you? I know nothing now, certainly; but what MIGHT I not if I had your confidence, and you set me on ?" I told him that he addressed my interest or what he supposed to be my interest quite as unsuccessfully as he addressed my inclination, and he would now understand that I requested him, if he pleased, to go away immediately. "Cruel miss," said Mr.Guppy, "hear but another word! I think you must have seen that I was struck with those charms on the day when I waited at the Whytorseller.
I think you must have remarked that I could not forbear a tribute to those charms when I put up the steps of the 'ackney-coach.
It was a feeble tribute to thee, but it was well meant.
Thy image has ever since been fixed in my breast.
I have walked up and down of an evening opposite Jellyby's house only to look upon the bricks that once contained thee.
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