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Chapter 23

           PocketwastheonlydaughterofacertainquiteaccidentaldeceasedKnight,whohadinventedforhimselfaconvictionthathisdeceasedfatherwouldhavebeenmadeaBaronetbutforsomebody’sdeterminedoppositionarisingoutofentirelypersonalmotivesIforgetwhose,ifIeverknewtheSovereign’s,thePrimeMinister’s,theLordChancellor’s,theArchbishopofCanterbury’s,anybody’sandhadtackedhimselfontothenoblesoftheearthinrightofthisquitesupposititiousfact.IbelievehehadbeenknightedhimselfforstormingtheEnglishgrammaratthepointofthepen,inadesperateaddressengrossedonvellum,ontheoccasionofthelayingofthefirststoneofsomebuildingorother,andforhandingsomeRoyalPersonageeitherthetrowelorthemortar.Bethatasitmay,hehaddirectedMrs.Pockettobebroughtupfromhercradleasonewhointhenatureofthingsmustmarryatitle,andwhowastobeguardedfromtheacquisitionofplebeiandomesticknowledge.

           Sosuccessfulawatchandwardhadbeenestablishedovertheyoungladybythisjudiciousparent,thatshehadgrownuphighlyornamental,butperfectlyhelplessanduseless.Withhercharacterthushappilyformed,inthefirstbloomofheryouthshehadencounteredMr.Pocket:whowasalsointhefirstbloomofyouth,andnotquitedecidedwhethertomounttotheWoolsack,ortoroofhimselfinwithamitre.Ashisdoingtheoneortheotherwasamerequestionoftime,heandMrs.

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