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In fact, said Mr Milvey, 'since you are so interested in the sister of your old pupil, I may as well tell you that I am going down to marry her. The schoolmaster started back. 'Not to marry her, myself, said Mr Milvey, with a smile, 'because I have a wife already. To perform the marriage service at her wedding. Bradley Headstone caught hold of a pillar behind him.
'Detained at the last moment by one who had a claim upon me, was the Reverend Frank's apology to Lightwood, taking no thought of himself. To which Mrs Milvey added, taking thought for him, like the championing little wife she was; 'Oh yes, detained at the last moment. But AS to the claim, Frank, I MUST say that I DO think you are OVER-considerate sometimes, and allow THAT to be a LITTLE abused.
They started directly, in a little carriage that Lightwood had brought with him from never-to-be-forgotten Greenwich; and from Greenwich they started directly for London; and in London they waited at a railway station until such time as the Reverend Frank Milvey, and Margaretta his wife, with whom Mortimer Lightwood had been already in conference, should come and join them.
For, when they had walked on with her to the little house in the clean village by the paper-mill, where Lizzie had a lodging with an elderly couple employed in the establishment, and when Mrs Milvey and Bella had been up to see her room and had come down, the mill bell rang.
'But I DOUBT, Frank, Mrs Milvey hinted, after a little hesitation, 'if Mrs Boffin wants an orphan QUITE nineteen, who drives a cart and waters the roads. Mr Milvey referred the point to Mrs Boffin in a look; on that smiling lady's shaking her black velvet bonnet and bows, he remarked, in lower spirits, 'that's true again.
'I should not have wanted the will; but I should not have had the power, without our managing partner. 'Surely not the Jew who received us? said Mrs Milvey. 'The gentleman certainly is a Jew, said Lizzie, 'and the lady, his wife, is a Jewess, and I was first brought to their notice by a Jew. But I think there cannot be kinder people in the world.
And even if you exchanged blankets for the child or books and firing it would be impossible to prevent their being turned into liquor. Accordingly, it was resolved that Mr and Mrs Milvey should search for an orphan likely to suit, and as free as possible from the foregoing objections, and should communicate again with Mrs Boffin.
At this, both Mr Milvey and Mrs Milvey were quite as much pleased as if they had no wants of their own, but only knew what poverty was, in the persons of other people; and so the interview terminated with satisfaction and good opinion on all sides.
There was now so evident a faltering upon him, expressive of indecision whether or no he should express his having heard himself referred to, that Mr Milvey spoke to him. 'I cannot recall your name, he said, 'but I remember to have seen you in your school. 'My name is Bradley Headstone, sir, he replied, backing into a more retired place.
Mr Milvey smiled again, as he remarked to himself 'Those kings and queens were always wishing for children. It occurring to him, perhaps, that if they had been Curates, their wishes might have tended in the opposite direction. 'I think, he pursued, 'we had better take Mrs Milvey into our Council. She is indispensable to me. If you please, I'll call her.
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