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While he remained in
Miss Stanbury's house he was to remain there as though there were no
such person as Mr Bartholomew Burgess in Exeter.
At this time Brooke Burgess was a man just turned thirty, and was a
clerk in the Ecclesiastical Record Office, in Somerset House. No doubt
the peculiar nature and name of the public department to which he was
attached had done something to recommend him to Miss Stanbury.
Ecclesiastical records were things greatly to be reverenced in her
eyes, and she felt that a gentleman who handled them and dealt with
them would probably be sedate, gentlemanlike, and conservative. Brooke
Burgess, when she had last seen him, was just about to enter upon the
duties of the office. Then there had come offence, and she had in truth
known nothing of him from that day to this. The visitor was to be at
Exeter on the following Monday, and very much was done in preparation
of his coming. There was to be a dinner party on that very day, and
dinner parties were not common with Miss Stanbury.


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