"Matter of business? I am curious to hear it."
"You have as good as informed me, sir, that you are going shortly
to be married?"
"Yes; what then?"
"In that case, sir, Adele ought to go to school: I am sure you
will perceive the necessity of it."
"To get her out of my bride's way, who might otherwise walk over
her rather too emphatically? There's sense in the suggestion; not
a doubt of it. Adele, as you say, must go to school; and you, of
course, must march straight to -- the devil?"
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