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Clemency Newcome made an angular tumble against the table, occasioning a sounding clatter among the cups and saucers. 'Heyday! what's the matter there? exclaimed the Doctor. 'It's this evil-inclined blue bag, said Clemency, 'always tripping up somebody! 'With a purpose and intention in it, I was saying, resumed Snitchey, 'that commands respect. Life a farce, Dr. Jeddler? With law in it?
Jeddler, pursued Clemency, putting down her tea-cup, and looking thoughtfully at the bill, 'in his grief and passion turned me out of house and home! I never have been so glad of anything in all my life, as that I didn't say an angry word to him, and hadn't any angry feeling towards him, even then; for he repented that truly, afterwards.
May she live to laugh at it, as long as she CAN laugh, and then say, with the French wit, "The farce is ended; draw the curtain." 'The French wit, said Mr. Snitchey, peeping sharply into his blue bag, 'was wrong, Doctor Jeddler, and your philosophy is altogether wrong, depend upon it, as I have often told you. Nothing serious in life! What do you call law? 'A joke, replied the Doctor.
Jeddler, said the young man. 'It is to the purpose. Much to the purpose, as my heart bears witness this morning; and as yours does too, I know, if you would let it speak.
The more actively, perhaps, because an elderly gentleman, who was no other than Doctor Jeddler himself it was Doctor Jeddler's house and orchard, you should know, and these were Doctor Jeddler's daughters came bustling out to see what was the matter, and who the deuce played music on his property, before breakfast. For he was a great philosopher, Doctor Jeddler, and not very musical.
We didn't think so much of it, at the time when we knew he was going on well under the Doctor's hands and roof; but it looks bad now, sir. Bad? It looks very bad. Doctor Jeddler too our client, Mr. Craggs. 'Mr. Alfred Heathfield too a sort of client, Mr. Snitchey, said Craggs. 'Mr.
Jeddler, in spite of his system of philosophy which he was continually contradicting and denying in practice, but more famous philosophers have done that could not help having as much interest in the return of his old ward and pupil as if it had been a serious event.
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