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'But it's a most extraordinary thing about that register-office fellow! thought Nicholas. 'Is it likely that this nephew can know anything about that beautiful girl?
Now, Lady Holster, who kept a sort of amateur county register-office, was only too glad to be made of use in this way; but when she inquired a little further as to the sort of person required, all she could extract from Mr. Wilkins was: "You know the kind of education a lady should have, and will, I am sure, choose a governess for Ellinor better than I could direct you.
'Tis like your brazen impudence to teave and wail when you be another woman's husband; yes, faith, I see'd her a-fainting in yer arms when you wanted to get away from her, and honest folk a-standing round who knew you'd married her, and said so. I heard it, though you didn't see me. "He's married!" says they. Some sly register-office business, no doubt; but sly doings will out.
'Where can I have stop! yes, to be sure he belongs to a register-office up at the west end of the town. I knew I recollected the face. It was, indeed, Tom, the ugly clerk. 'That's odd enough! said Nicholas, ruminating upon the strange manner in which the register-office seemed to start up and stare him in the face every now and then, and when he least expected it.
"And have none such made application to you?" "Why no, I believe not." "Fie, fie! no register-office keeper has been pestered with more claimants. You know they assault you by dozens." "You must pardon me, indeed, I know not any such thing." "You know, then, why they do not, and that is much the same." "I may conjecture why, at least: the place, I suppose, is not worth the service."
Nicholas stammered out an awkward apology, and was precipitately retiring, when the young lady, turning her head a little, presented to his view the features of the lovely girl whom he had seen at the register-office on his first visit long before.
Yes; that he, Barkilphedro, almost a clergyman, of varied and profound talent, a learned man, with the material in him for a bishop, should have for employ the registration of nasty patience-trying shards, that he should have to pass his life in the garret of a register-office, gravely uncorking stupid bottles, incrusted with all the nastiness of the sea, deciphering musty parchments, like filthy conjuring-books, dirty wills, and other illegible stuff of the kind, was the fault of this Josiana.
'Oh! thank you! cried Albinia; 'yet I doubt. However, her services would be quite equivalent in any school to the lessons she wants. I'll write to Mrs. Elwood and she was absorbed in the register-office in her brain, when Mr. Kendal continued 'This is quite unexpected. I could not have supposed the boy so foolish!
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