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CHAPTER XIV
MR. PARISH PURSUES A BROUGHAM
Christopher Parish lived at home, that is to say, he was not a
lodger under an alien roof, like the majority of such young men in
London, but abode with his own people--his mother, his elder
brother, and his brother's wife. They had a decent little house in
Kennington, managed--rather better than such houses generally
are--by Mrs. Parish the younger, who was childless, and thus able to
devote herself to what she called "hyjene," a word constantly on her
lips and on those of her husband. Mr. Theodore Parish, aged about
five-and-thirty, was an audit clerk in the offices of a railway
company, and he loved to expatiate on the hardship of his position,
which lay in the fact that he could not hope for a higher income
than one hundred and fifty pounds, and this despite the trying and
responsible nature of the duties he discharged. After dwelling upon
this injustice he would add, with peculiar gravity, that really in
certain moods one all but inclined to give a hearing to the
arguments of socialistic agitators.
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