GOING INTO SOCIETY(走进交际圈)

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GOING INTO SOCIETY

By Charles Dickens

GOING INTO SOCIETY

At one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a

Showman. He was found registered as its occupier, on the parish books

of the time when he rented the House, and there was therefore no need of

any clue to his name. But, he himself was less easy to be found; for, he

had led a wandering life, and settled people had lost sight of him, and

people who plumed themselves on being respectable were shy of

admitting that they had ever known anything of him. At last, among the

marsh lands near the river's level, that lie about Deptford and the

neighbouring market-gardens, a Grizzled Personage in velveteen, with a

face so cut up by varieties of weather that he looked as if he had been

tattooed, was found smoking a pipe at the door of a wooden house on

wheels. The wooden house was laid up in ordinary for the winter, near

the mouth of a muddy creek; and everything near it, the foggy river, the

misty marshes, and the steaming market-gardens, smoked in company

with the grizzled man. In the midst of this smoking party, the funnel-

chimney of the wooden house on wheels was not remiss, but took its pipe

with the rest in a companionable manner.

On being asked if it were he who had once rented the House to Let,

Grizzled Velveteen looked surprised, and said yes. Then his name was

Magsman? That was it, Toby Magsman--which lawfully christened

Robert; but called in the line, from a infant, Toby. There was nothing

agin Toby Magsman, he believed? If there was suspicion of such--

mention it!

There was no suspicion of such, he might rest assured. But, some

inquiries were making about that House, and would he object to say why

he left it?

Not at all; why should he? He left it, along of a Dwarf.

Along of a Dwarf?

Mr. Magsman repeated, deliberately and emphatically, Along of a

Dwarf.

Might it be compatible with Mr. Magsman's inclination and

convenience to enter, as a favour, into a few particulars?

Mr. Magsman entered into the following particulars.

GOING INTO SOCIETY

It was a long time ago, to begin with;--afore lotteries and a deal more

was done away with. Mr. Magsman was looking about for a good pitch,

and he see that house, and he says to himself, "I'll have you, if you're to be

had. If money'll get you, I'll have you."

The neighbours cut up rough, and made complaints; but Mr. Magsman

don't know what they WOULD have had. It was a lovely thing. First of

all, there was the canvass, representin the picter of the Giant, in Spanish

trunks and a ruff, who was himself half the heighth of the house, and was

run up with a line and pulley to a pole on the roof, so that his Ed was

coeval with the parapet. Then, there was the canvass, representin the

picter of the Albina lady, showing her white air to the Army and Navy in

correct uniform. Then, there was the canvass, representin the picter of

the Wild Indian a scalpin a member of some foreign nation. Then, there

was the canvass, representin the picter of a child of a British Planter,

seized by two Boa Constrictors--not that WE never had no child, nor no

Constrictors neither. Similarly, there was the canvass, representin the

picter of the Wild Ass of the Prairies--not that WE never had no wild asses,

nor wouldn't have had 'em at a gift. Last, there was the canvass,

representin the picter of the Dwarf, and like him too (considerin), with

George the Fourth in such a state of astonishment at him as His Majesty

couldn't with his utmost politeness and stoutness express. The front of

the House was so covered with canvasses, that there wasn't a spark of

daylight ever visible on that side. "MAGSMAN'S AMUSEMENTS,"

fifteen foot long by two foot high, ran over the front door and parlour

winders. The passage was a Arbour of green baize and gardenstuff. A

barrel-organ performed there unceasing. And as to respectability,--if

threepence ain't respectable, what is?

But, the Dwarf is the principal article at present, and he was worth the

money. He was wrote up as MAJOR TPSCHOFFKI, OF THE

IMPERIAL BULGRADERIAN BRIGADE. Nobody couldn't pronounce

the name, and it never was intended anybody should. The public always

turned it, as a regular rule, into Chopski. In the line he was called Chops;

partly on that account, and partly because his real name, if he ever had any

real name (which was very dubious), was Stakes.

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GOINGINTOSOCIETY1GOINGINTOSOCIETYByCharlesDickensGOINGINTOSOCIETY2Atoneperiodofitsreverses,theHousefellintotheoccupationofaShowman.Hewasfoundregisteredasitsoccupier,ontheparishbooksofthetimewhenherentedtheHouse,andtherewasthereforenoneedofanycluetohisname.But,hehimselfwaslesseasytobefound;for,hehadl...

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