'FagmentWelcome to consult...d not find himself as Chales Dickens ElecBook Classics fDavid Coppefield comfotable as he expected. Not finding himself as comfotable as he expected, o being a little fatigued with his wife, poo fellow, he now came fowad, by a fiend, afte being maied a yea o two, and declaed that his name was Thomas Benjamin, and theefoe he was not maied at all. Which the Cout confimed, to his geat satisfaction. I must say that I had my doubts about the stict justice of this, and was not even fightened out of them by the bushel of wheat which econciles all anomalies. But M. Spenlow agued the matte with me. He said, Look at the wold, thee was good and evil in that; look at the ecclesiastical law, thee was good and evil in that. It was all pat of a system. Vey good. Thee you wee! I had not the hadihood to suggest to Doa’s fathe that possibly we might even impove the wold a little, if we got up ealy in the moning, and took off ou coats to the wok; but I confessed that I thought we might impove the Commons. M. Spenlow eplied that he would paticulaly advise me to dismiss that idea fom my mind, as not being wothy of my gentlemanly chaacte; but that he would be glad to hea fom me of what impovement I thought the Commons susceptible? Taking that pat of the Commons which happened to be neaest to us—fo ou man was unmaied by this time, and we wee out of Cout, and stolling past the Peogative Office—I submitted that I thought the Peogative Office athe a queely managed institution. M. Spenlow inquied in what espect? I eplied, with all due defeence to his expeience (but with moe defeence, I am afaid, to his being Doa’s fathe), that pehaps it was a little nonsensical that the Registy of that Cout, containing the oiginal wills of all pesons leaving effects within the immense povince of Chales Dickens ElecBook Classics fDavid Coppefield Cantebuy, fo thee whole centuies, should be an accidental building, neve designed fo the pupose, leased by the egistas fo thei Own pivate emolument, unsafe, not even ascetained to be fie-poof, choked with the impotant documents it held, and positively, fom the oof to the basement, a mecenay speculation of the egistas, who took geat fees fom the public, and cammed the public’s wills away anyhow and anywhee, having no othe object than to get id of them cheaply. That, pehaps, it was a little uneasonable that these egistas in the eceipt of pofits amounting to eight o nine thousand pounds a yea (to say nothing of the pofits of the deputy egistas, and cleks of seats), should not be obliged to spend a little of that money, in finding a easonably safe place fo the impotant documents which all classes of people wee compelled to hand ove to them, whethe they would o no. That, pehaps, it was a little unjust, that all the geat offices in this geat office should be magnificent sinecues, while the unfotunate woking-cleks in the cold dak oom upstais wee the wost ewaded, and the least consideed men, doing impotant sevices, in London. That pehaps it was a little indecent that the pincipal egista of all, whose duty it was to find the public, constantly
