? ? ? ? 'Mr. Copperfield, I believe,' said the sister who had got my letter, addressing herself to Traddles.
? ? ? ? This was a frightful beginning. Traddles had to indicate that I was Mr. Copperfield, and I had to lay claim to myself, and they had to divest themselves of a preconceived opinion that Traddles was Mr. Copperfield, and altogether we were in a nice condition. To improve it, we all distinctly heard Jip give two short barks, and receive another choke.
? ? ? ? 'Mr. Copperfield!' said the sister with the letter.
? ? ? ? I did something - bowed, I suppose - and was all attention, when the other sister struck in.
? ? ? ? 'My sister Lavinia,' said she 'being conversant with matters of this nature, will state what we consider most calculated to promote the happiness of both parties.'
? ? ? ? I discovered afterwards that Miss Lavinia was an authority in affairs of the heart, by reason of there having anciently existed a certain Mr. Pidger, who played short whist, and was supposed to have been enamoured of her. My private opinion is, that this was entirely a gratuitous assumption, and that Pidger was altogether innocent of any such sentiments - to which he had never given any sort of expression that I could ever hear of.
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