Identifier: ourmutualfriend00dick (find matches)
Title: Our mutual friend
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Dickens, Charles, 1837-1896, ed
Subjects: Inheritance and succession Social classes Poor families Deception
Publisher: New York, London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ions and Mr. Headstones aid, and have no right to have anydarkness cast upon my prospects, or any imputation upon my re-spectability, through my sister ? The boyish weakness of this speech, combined with its greatselfishness, made it a poor one indeed. And yet Bradley Headstone,used to the little audience of a school, and unused to the largerways of men, showed a kind of exultation in it. Now I tell Mr. Eugene Wrayburn, pursued the boy, forcedinto the use of the third person by the hopelessness of addressinghim in the first, that I object to his having any acquaintance atall with my sister, and that I request him to drop it altogether.He is not to take it into his head that I am afraid of my sisterscaring for him (As the boy sneered, the Master sneered, and Eugene blew off thefeathery ash again.) — But I object to it, and thats enough. I am more importantto my sister than he thinks. As I raise myself, I intend to raiseher; she knows that, and she has to look to me for her prospects.
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OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 277 Now I understand all this very well, and so does Mr. Headstone.My sister is an excellent girl, but she has some romantic notions ;not about such things as your Mr. Eugene Wrayburns, but aboutthe death of my father and other matters of that sort. Mr. Wray-burn encourages those notions to make himself of importance, andso she thinks she ought to be grateful to him, and perhaps evenlikes to be. Now I dont choose her to be grateful to him, or tobe grateful to anybody but me, except Mr. Headstone. And I tellMr. Wrayburn that if he dont take heed of what I say, it will beworse for her. Let him turn that over in his memory, and makesure of it. Worse for her! A pause ensued, in which the schoolmaster looked very awkward. May I suggest, Schoolmaster, said Eugene, removing his fast-waning cigar from his lips to glance at it, that you can now takeyour pupil away 1 And Mr. Lightwood, added the boy, with a burning face,under the flaming aggravation of getting no sort of answ

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