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`` Why , most of them that I have seen , '' replied Parkinson , `` seem strangers . '' `` Ah , they will prove , I suppose , '' said the Attorney-General , `` the later steps of the pedigree , when Stephen Dreddlington married at a distance from his native county . '' They then entered into a very full and minute examination of the case ; after which , -- `` Well , '' said the Attorney-General , evidently fatigued with his long journey , and rising from his chair , `` we must trust to what will turn up in the chapter of accidents to-morrow . I shall be expected to dine with the bar to-day , '' he added ; `` but immediately after dinner -- say at half-past seven o'clock , I shall be here and at your service , if anything should be required . '' Then the consultation broke up . Mr. Aubrey had , at their earnest entreaty , brought Mrs. Aubrey and Kate from Yatton , on Saturday ; for they declared themselves unable to bear the dreadful suspense in which they should be left at Yatton . Yielding , therefore , to these their very reasonable wishes , he had engaged private lodgings at the outskirts of the town .