'WILKINS MICAWBER.
'P.S. It may be advisable to superadd to the above,the statement that Mrs. Micawber is not in confidential possession of my intentions.'
I read the letter over several times. Making due allowance for Mr. Micawber's lofty style of composition, and for the extraordinary relish with which he sat down and wrote long letters on all possible and impossible occasions, I still believed that something important lay hidden at the bottom of this roundabout communication. I put it down, to think about it; and took it up again, to read it once more; and was still pursuing it, when Traddles found me in the height of my perplexity.