But Mr
Chuffey's friends has made propojals for his bein' took care on, and has
said to me, "Mrs Gamp, WILL you undertake it? We couldn't think," they
says, "of trusting him to nobody but you, for, Sairey, you are gold as
has passed the furnage. Will you undertake it, at your own price, day
and night, and by your own self?" "No," I says, "I will not. Do not
reckon on it. There is," I says, "but one creetur in the world as I would
undertake on sech terms, and her name is Harris. But," I says, "I
am acquainted with a friend, whose name is Betsey Prig, that I can
recommend, and will assist me. Betsey," I says, "is always to be trusted
under me, and will be guided as I could desire."'
Here Mrs Prig, without any abatement of her offensive manner again
counterfeited abstraction of mind, and stretched out her hand to the
teapot. It was more than Mrs Gamp could bear. She stopped the hand of
Mrs Prig with her own, and said, with great feeling:
'No, Betsey! Drink fair, wotever you do!'
Mrs Prig, thus baffled, threw herself back in her chair, and closing the
same eye more emphatically, and folding her arms tighter, suffered her
head to roll slowly from side to side, while she surveyed her friend
with a contemptuous smile.
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