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A Dissolution of Partnership

           Copperfield,istoforgetit.’

           All!InthenoteIwrotetoMissMills,Ibitterlyquotedthissentiment.AllIhadtodo,Isaid,withgloomysarcasm,wastoforgetDora.Thatwasall,andwhatwasthat!IentreatedMissMillstoseeme,thatevening.IfitcouldnotbedonewithMr.Mills’ssanctionandconcurrence,IbesoughtaclandestineinterviewinthebackkitchenwheretheManglewas.Iinformedherthatmyreasonwastotteringonitsthrone,andonlyshe,MissMills,couldpreventitsbeingdeposed.Isignedmyself,hersdistractedly;andIcouldn’thelpfeeling,whileIreadthiscompositionover,beforesendingitbyaporter,thatitwassomethinginthestyleofMr.Micawber.

           However,Isentit.AtnightIrepairedtoMissMills’sstreet,andwalkedupanddown,untilIwasstealthilyfetchedinbyMissMills’smaid,andtakentheareawaytothebackkitchen.Ihavesinceseenreasontobelievethattherewasnothingonearthtopreventmygoinginatthefrontdoor,andbeingshownupintothedrawing-room,exceptMissMills’sloveoftheromanticandmysterious.

           Inthebackkitchen,Iravedasbecameme.Iwentthere,Isuppose,tomakeafoolofmyself,andIamquitesureIdidit.MissMillshadreceivedahastynotefromDora,tellingherthatallwasdiscovered,andsaying.‘Ohpraycometome,Julia,do,do!’ButMissMills,mistrustingtheacceptabilityofherpresencetothehigherpowers,hadnotyetgone;andwewereallbenightedintheDesertofSahara.

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