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With a ready patient face and manner, and yet with a latent smile that showed a quick enough observation of Mrs Boffin's dress, Mr Milvey, in his little book-room charged with sounds and cries as though the six children above were coming down through the ceiling, and the roasting leg of mutton below were coming up through the floor listened to Mrs Boffin's statement of her want of an orphan.

They asked me to be industrious and faithful, and I promised to be so. They most willingly and cheerfully do their duty to all of us who are employed here, and we try to do ours to them. Indeed they do much more than their duty to us, for they are wonderfully mindful of us in many ways. 'It is easy to see you're a favourite, my dear, said little Mrs Milvey, not quite pleased.

'But suppose they try to convert you! suggested Mrs Milvey, bristling in her good little way, as a clergyman's wife. 'To do what, ma'am? asked Lizzie, with a modest smile. 'To make you change your religion, said Mrs Milvey. Lizzie shook her head, still smiling. 'They have never asked me what my religion is. They asked me what my story was, and I told them.

I hope there is nothing amiss with the sister of my old pupil? I hope no bereavement has befallen her. I hope she is in no affliction? Has lost no relation? Mr Milvey thought this a man with a very odd manner, and a dark downward look; but he answered in his usual open way. 'I am glad to tell you, Mr Headstone, that the sister of your old pupil has not sustained any such loss.

Then, Mr Boffin took the liberty of mentioning to Mr Milvey that if Mr Milvey would do him the kindness to be perpetually his banker to the extent of 'a twenty-pound note or so, to be expended without any reference to him, he would be heartily obliged.

'No, don't say that, assented Mr Milvey, 'because we are so much obliged to you for giving us the preference. Which Mrs Milvey confirmed; and really the kind, conscientious couple spoke, as if they kept some profitable orphan warehouse and were personally patronized. 'But it is a responsible trust, added Mr Milvey, 'and difficult to discharge.

If Mr Milvey knew an ashy face when he saw it, he saw it then. 'You are quite ill, Mr Headstone! 'It is not much, sir. It will pass over very soon. I am accustomed to be seized with giddiness. Don't let me detain you, sir; I stand in need of no assistance, I thank you. Much obliged by your sparing me these minutes of your time.

As gallantly had Mr Milvey repressed much in himself that naturally belonged to his old studies and old fellow-students, and taken up among the poor and their children with the hard crumbs of life. 'Mr and Mrs Boffin, my dear, whose good fortune you have heard of. Mrs Milvey, with the most unaffected grace in the world, congratulated them, and was glad to see them.

But, the uniform principle at the root of all these various operations was bargain and sale; and that principle could not be recognized by Mr and Mrs Milvey. At length, tidings were received by the Reverend Frank of a charming orphan to be found at Brentford.

At length the Bower district was left behind, and the peaceful dwelling of the Reverend Frank Milvey was gained. The Reverend Frank Milvey's abode was a very modest abode, because his income was a very modest income. He was officially accessible to every blundering old woman who had incoherence to bestow upon him, and readily received the Boffins.