Mr.Kenge, therefore, came down to dinner one day, and leaned back in his chair, and turned his eye-glasses over and over, and spoke in a sonorous voice, and did exactly what I remembered to have seen him do when I was a little girl.
"Ah!" said Mr.Kenge.

"Yes.

Well! A very good profession, Mr.
Jarndyce, a very good profession." "The course of study and preparation requires to be diligently pursued," observed my guardian with a glance at Richard.
"Oh, no doubt," said Mr.Kenge.

"Diligently." "But that being the case, more or less, with all pursuits that are worth much," said Mr.Jarndyce, "it is not a special consideration which another choice would be likely to escape." "Truly," said Mr.Kenge.

"And Mr.Richard Carstone, who has so meritoriously acquitted himself in the--shall I say the classic shades ?--in which his youth had been passed, will, no doubt, apply the habits, if not the principles and practice, of versification in that tongue in which a poet was said (unless I mistake) to be born, not made, to the more eminently practical field of action on which he enters." "You may rely upon it," said Richard in his off-hand manner, "that I shall go at it and do my best." "Very well, Mr.Jarndyce!" said Mr.Kenge, gently nodding his head.
"Really, when we are assured by Mr.Richard that he means to go at it and to do his best," nodding feelingly and smoothly over those expressions, "I would submit to you that we have only to inquire into the best mode of carrying out the object of his ambition.