'And that,' he said, 'is he. Ah! that is he! Say what you wish to say.
But come no nearer,'
'His sense of justice is so fine,' said Mr Pecksniff, 'that he will
hear even him, although he knows beforehand that nothing can come of it.
Ingenuous mind!' Mr Pecksniff did not address himself immediately to
any person in saying this, but assuming the position of the Chorus in a
Greek Tragedy, delivered his opinion as a commentary on the proceedings.
'Grandfather!' said Martin, with great earnestness. 'From a painful
journey, from a hard life, from a sick-bed, from privation and distress,
from gloom and disappointment, from almost hopelessness and despair, I
have come back to you.'
'Rovers of this sort,' observed Mr Pecksniff, as Chorus, 'very commonly
come back when they find they don't meet with the success they expected
in their marauding ravages.'
'But for this faithful man,' said Martin, turning towards Mark, 'whom
I first knew in this place, and who went away with me voluntarily, as
a servant, but has been, throughout, my zealous and devoted friend; but
for him, I must have died abroad.
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