“Second: them poor things well out o' this, and
never no more will I interfere with
Mrs. Cruncher's flopping, never no more!"
"Whatever housekeeping arrangement that may be,
" said Miss Pross, striving to dry her eyes and compose herself,
"I have no doubt it is best that Mrs. Cruncher
should have it entirely under her own superintendence.—
O my poor darlings!"
"I go so far as to say, miss, moreover," proceeded
Mr. Cruncher, with a most alarming tendency to
hold forth as from a pulpit—"and let my words
be took down and took to Mrs. Cruncher through
yourself—that wot my opinions respectin' flopping
has undergone a change, and that wot I only hope
with all my heart as Mrs. Cruncher may
be a flopping at the present time."
"There, there, there! I hope she is, my dear man,
"cried the distracted Miss Pross, "and I hope
she finds it answering her expectations.”
~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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