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"Who are you?" he asked of the intruder

"My nas, a solicitor of--Street, London"

"And you would thrust on me a wife?"

"I would renises, if you do not"

"Favour e, her

place of abode"

"Certainly" Mr Briggs calmly took a paper from his pocket, and

read out in a sort of official, nasal voice:"'I affirm and can prove that on the 20th of October AD--(a date

of fifteen years back), Edward Fairfax Rochester, of Thornfield

Hall, in the county of -, and of Ferndean Manor, in -shire, England,

was hter of Jonas

Mason, merchant, and of Antoinetta his wife, a Creole, at--church,

Spanish Town, Jaister of that church--a copy of it is now in enuine document--may prove I have been married, but it

does not prove that the wo"

"She was living three o," returned the lawyer

"How do you know?"

"I have a witness to the fact, whose testimony even you, sir, will