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If the critics in this case were in the right we should have to acknowledge an auctioneer's catalogue as a chef d'ouvre. To the sympathetic reader it was evident from the first that Mr. Moore was not greatly enamoured of his work for its own sake, and that he chose his themes, not because of any imperative attraction they had for him, but simply and purely for the use to which he could put them.
The inquisition, that chef d'ouvre of sacerdotal guilt, was speedily introduced into their domestic arrangements, and, as was naturally to be supposed, caused a sudden revulsion, on which account the missionaries thenceforth maintained only a precarious and even a perilous position.
'I am glad at least sir, that I have not disgraced my mother, said Bertie. Charlotte could hardly keep her countenance; but the doctor's brow grew still blacker than ever. Bertie was executing his chef d'ouvre in the delineation of Mrs Proudie's nose and mouth. 'You are a heartless reprobate, sir; a heartless, thankless, good-for-nothing reprobate. I have done with you.
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