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'I think, said Mr Milvey, 'that you have never had a child of your own, Mr and Mrs Boffin? Never. 'But, like the Kings and Queens in the Fairy Tales, I suppose you have wished for one? In a general way, yes.
'Yes sure! said she, when the business was opened, 'Mrs Milvey had the kindness to write to me, ma'am, and I got Sloppy to read it. It was a pretty letter. But she's an affable lady. The visitors glanced at the long boy, who seemed to indicate by a broader stare of his mouth and eyes that in him Sloppy stood confessed.
'I ought to have remembered it, said Mr Milvey, giving him his hand. 'I hope you are well? A little overworked, I am afraid? 'Yes, I am overworked just at present, sir. 'Had no play in your last holiday time? 'No, sir. 'All work and no play, Mr Headstone, will not make dulness, in your case, I dare say; but it will make dyspepsia, if you don't take care. 'I will endeavour to take care, sir.
And if we had ONLY known of his face, we COULD have given him something that would have kept it down long enough for so SHORT a purpose. By way of making the white one whiter, Bella hastened to stipulate that he was not in pain. Mrs Milvey was SO glad of it. 'I don't know HOW it is, said Mrs Milvey, 'and I am SURE you don't, Frank, but the clergy and their wives seem to CAUSE swelled faces.
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