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As soon as we returned I sat down with her. "So I understand that Mr Cophagus intends to reside altogether in London." "I have not heard so; I understood that it was business which called him hither for a few weeks. I trust not, for I shall be unhappy here." "May I ask why?" "The people are rude it is not agreeable to walk out."
No, no, Japhet; if thou art yearned for, thou wilt be found, and fresh inquiries will be made; but thy search is unavailing, and already hast thou lost much time." "True, Susannah, thy advise is good," replied Mrs Cophagus; "in following a shadow Japhet hath much neglected the substance; it is time that thou shouldst settle thyself, and earn thy livelihood."
At others but it is useless to repeat the absurdities and castle buildings which were generated in my brain from mystery. My airy fabrics would at last disappear, and leave me in all the misery of doubt and abandoned hope. Mr Cophagus, when the question was sometimes put to him, would say, "Good boy very good boy don't want a father."
"Good warm old lady. No dead and cold but left some thousands only one legacy old Tom cat physic him to-morrow soon die, and so on." On a more full explanation, I found that the old lady had left about nine thousand pounds in the funds and bank securities, all of which, with the exception of twenty pounds per annum to a favourite cat, was left to Mr Cophagus.
There was one packet of letters which caught my eye; it was from a Miss De Benyon. I seized it immediately, and showed the inscription to Mr Cophagus. "Pooh nothing at all her mother was a De Benyon." "Have you any objection to my looking at these letters?" "No read nothing in them." I laid them on one side, and we proceeded in our search when Mr Cophagus took up a sealed packet.
Mr Brookes, who imagined we had sold it to the Irishman out of fun, then gave us a very severe lecture, and threatened to acquaint Mr Cophagus if ever we played such tricks again.
I was dismissed after this examination and approval, and the next day, dressed in a plain suit of clothes, was delivered by the porter at the shop of Mr Phineas Cophagus, who was not at home when I arrived. Like all Tyros, I find the rudiments of learning extremely difficult and laborious, but advance so rapidly than I can do without my Master.
That evening Mr Pleggit called in as Mr Cophagus said that he would, and the latter showed a great deal of impatience; but Mr Pleggit repeated his visits over and over again, and I observed that Mr Cophagus no longer made any objection; on the contrary, seemed anxious for his coming, and still more so, after he was convalescent, and able to sit at his table. But the mystery was soon divulged.
He asked her where she was staying, and when he heard that it was with Mr Cophagus, he said that he should have the pleasure of calling upon Mr Cophagus, and thank him for his kind information relative to me. Shortly afterwards Cophagus took his leave, and Susannah rose to accompany him, when my father, hearing that they had walked, insisted upon putting Miss Temple down in his carriage.
"Why, I am Japhet Newland myself, sir." "You, sir," replied the governor, surveying my fashionable exterior, my chains, and bijouterie. "Yes, sir, I am the Japhet Newland brought up in this asylum, and who was apprenticed to Mr Cophagus." "Probably, then, sir," replied the president, "you are the Mr Newland whose name appears at all the fashionable parties in high life?"
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