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Before she started for Ullathorne, Mrs. Proudie, careful soul, caused two letters to be written, one by herself and one by her lord, to the inhabitants of Puddingdale vicarage, which made happy the hearth1 of those within it.
As soon as the departure of the horses left the bishop2’s stable-groom free for other services, that humble3 denizen4 of the diocese started on the bishop’s own pony5 with the two dispatches. We have had so many letters lately that we will spare ourselves these. That from the bishop was simply a request that Mr. Quiverful would wait upon his lordship the next morning at 11 A.M.; that from the lady was as simply a request that Mrs. Quiverful would do the same by her, though it was couched in somewhat longer and more grandiloquent6 phraseology.
It had become a point of conscience with Mrs. Proudie to urge the settlement of this great hospital question. She was resolved that Mr. Quiverful should have it. She was resolved that there should be no more doubt or delay, no more refusals and resignations, no more secret negotiations7 carried on by Mr. Slope on his own account in opposition8 to her behests.
“Bishop,” she said immediately after breakfast on the morning of that eventful day, “have you signed the appointment yet?”
“No, my dear, not yet; it is not exactly signed as yet.”
“Then do it,” said the lady.
The bishop did it, and a very pleasant day indeed he spent at Ullathorne. And when he got home, he had a glass of hot negus in his wife’s sitting-room9 and read the last number of the Little Dorrit of the day with great inward satisfaction. Oh, husbands, oh, my

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