This internal canal is--'
'Is actually in the house, sir; and, when you are so shortly to be--as
I expect--'
'Closed at the further end by the _membrana tympani_--'
'Joined together in holy matrimony--'
'Under which is carried a branch of the fifth pair of nerves--'
'I say, sir, when you are so shortly to be married to your cousin
Marionetta--'
'The _cavitas tympani_--'
A loud noise was heard behind the book-case, which, to the
astonishment of Mr Glowry, opened in the middle, and the massy
compartments, with all their weight of books, receding from each other
in the manner of a theatrical scene, with a heavy rolling sound (which
Mr Glowry immediately recognised to be the same which had excited his
curiosity,) disclosed an interior apartment, in the entrance of
which stood the beautiful Stella, who, stepping forward, exclaimed,
'Married! Is he going to be married? The profligate!'
'Really, madam,' said Mr Glowry, 'I do not know what he is going to
do, or what I am going to do, or what any one is going to do; for all
this is incomprehensible.'
'I can explain it all,' said Scythrop, 'in a most satisfactory manner,
if you will but have the goodness to leave us alone.'
'Pray, sir, to which act of the tragedy of the Great Mogul does this
incident belong?'
'I entreat you, my dear sir, leave us alone.
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