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What veneration, what respect, could a servant feel for a master whom he heard called 'Old bellows-to-mend'? It damaged the respect inspired by the chairmanship of the Stir-it-stiff Union, to say nothing of the trusteeship of the Sloppyhocks, Tolpuddle, and other turnpike-roads. It annihilated everything. So he fumed, and fretted, and snorted, and snored.
'No, thir! snuffled the boy, who had a bad cold, 'been thitten up for you. 'Old puff-and-blow gone? asked Mr. Sponge, depositing his hat and whip on a chair. The boy gave no answer. 'Is old bellows-to-mend gone to bed? asked Mr. Sponge in a louder voice.
He was full of indignation and jealousy, and felt suspicious of the very bolster itself. He had been insulted grossly insulted. Three such names the 'Woolpack, 'Old puff-and-blow, and 'Bellows-to-mend' no gentleman, surely, ever was called before by a guest, in his own house. Called, too, before his own servant.
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