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"For you see," he said, "I am a sort of protege, both on my own account and on Lord Lynedale's Ellerton, he is now you know he is just married to the dean's niece, Miss Staunton and Ellerton's a capital fellow promised me a living as soon as I'm in priest's orders. So my cue is now," he went on as we walked down the Strand together, "to get ordained as fast as ever I can."
A person must work like a horse, now-a-days, to succeed at all; and Lynedale's a desperately particular fellow, with all sorts of outre notions about people's duties and vocations and heaven knows what." "Well," I said, "my dear cousin, and have you no high notions of a clergyman's vocation? because we I mean the working men have.
At all events, I'll say no more; and you shall sit down there, and write as still as a mouse till two, while I tackle this never-to-be-enough-by-unhappy-third-years'-men-execrated Griffin's Optics." At four that afternoon, I knocked, proofs in hand, at the door of Lord Lynedale's rooms in the King's Parade.
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