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The gentleman was requested to dismount, and walk in. Mrs. Crane received him in the inn parlour, which swarmed with flies. She stood in the centre, vigilant, grim spider of the place. "I c-ca-call," said the gentleman, stammering fearfully, in con- consequence of a b-b-bill I ch-chanced to see in my ri-ri-ri-ride yesterday on a wa-wa-wall. You-you, I sup-sup " "Am X. X.," put in Mrs.
Smith will settle with me. Here's a f-f-five-pound note: that will pay your b-b-bill and your f-fare, and leave something over for a b-bed in the village if you can't get home to-night." "Well now, that's handsome, be dazed if it hain't." "Just receipt your bill, w-will you? By the b-bye, Mr. Smith didn't pay you anything on account?" "I won't tell a lie. He did.
'Send in your bill, says he, and send it I did, and neither song nor sixpence have I got for it. Thinks I, I'll go and see if he give me a right name and address, and a mighty moil 'twas to find the place, and no train back till mornin', and my wife don't know where I be." "Very annoying. What's the amount of your b-b-bill?" "Here it be. Cast your eye on it, sir. I ain't overcharged a penny."
"That's a lie!" he said, in his slow, impressive manner. "There is always such a man as this in every crowd. Some one is always trying to take advantage of those who, like myself, are living for the public good. Gentlemen, you saw me lay the b-b-bill he gave me down upon the top! Here it is; judge for yourselves. That is a bad man! Beware of him!"
"Barton, sir; Firtop Farm, Mottisfont." "What is this b-b-bill for d-d-damages you speak of?" "Why, sir, 'twas like this.
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