Chelmsford

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• “Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said — of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.”

• “I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash–house copper with the lid on.”

• “That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.”

• “"Time was," he said, "when it was well to watch even your rising little star, and know in what quarter there were clouds, to shadow you if needful. But a planet has arisen, and you are lost in its light."”

• “Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.”

• “'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'”

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