----Then, answered my father, 'Tis much at your service, Dr. _Slop_--on condition you will read it aloud; ----so rising up and reaching down a form of excommunication of the church of _Rome_, a copy of which, my father (who was curious in his collections) had procured out of the leger-book of the church of _Rochester_, writ by ERNULPHUS the bishop----with a most affected seriousness of look and voice, which might have cajoled ERNULPHUS himself--he put it into Dr. _Slop's_ hands. 
'Then,' answered my father, ''tis at your service, Dr. Slop - on condition you will read it aloud.'
Rising up and reaching down a form of excommunication of the church of Rome, a copy of which my father had procured from the church of Rochester, writ by Ernelphus the bishop - with a most serious look, he put it into Dr. Slop's hands.
