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You will sweep them so neatly out of OUR sky in the
course of your housekeeping, Esther, that one of these days
we shall have to abandon the growlery and nail up the
door.’
This was the beginning of my being called Old Wom-
an, and Little Old Woman, and Cobweb, and Mrs. Shipton,
and Mother Hubbard, and Dame Durden, and so many
names of that sort that my own name soon became quite
lost among them.
‘However,’ said Mr. Jarndyce, ‘to return to our gossip.
Here’s Rick, a fine young fellow full of promise. What’s to
be done with him?’
Oh, my goodness, the idea of asking my advice on such
a point!
‘Here he is, Esther,’ said Mr. Jarndyce, comfortably put-
ting his hands into his pockets and stretching out his legs.
‘He must have a profession; he must make some choice for
himself. There will be a world more wiglomeration about it,
I suppose, but it must be done.’
‘More what, guardian?’ said I.
‘More wiglomeration,’ said he. ‘It’s the only name I know
for the thing. He is a ward in Chancery, my dear. Kenge and
Carboy will have something to say about it; Master Some-
body—a sort of ridiculous sexton, digging graves for the
merits of causes in a back room at the end of Quality Court,
Chancery Lane—will have something to say about it; coun-
sel will have something to say about it; the Chancellor will
have something to say about it; the satellites will have some-
thing to say about it; they will all have to be handsomely

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