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He felt about as much _ sentiment _ in the matter as a hog eating acorns would feel interest in the antiquity of the oak from which they fell , and under whose venerable shade he was munching and stuffing himself . `` By the way , Lynx -- are n't you with me in _ Higson and Mellington _ ? '' `` Yes -- and it stands first for to-morrow morning ! '' `` I 've not opened my papers , and -- why , we 've a consultation fixed for ten o'clock to-night ! What 's it all about ? '' `` It 's _ libel _ against a newspaper editor -- the POMFRET COCKATRICE ; and our client 's a clergyman . They 've slandered him most abominably : they say he entered the church as a wholesale dealer in tithes -- and as to religion -- is an unbeliever and hypocrite ! ''