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I s'y, you know, it must feel awf'ly peculiar to get bowled over on a d'y like this. I'd rather 'ave it on a cowld and frosty morning, wouldn't you? 'Ow are you off now, for the notion of a future styte? Do you cotton to the tea-fight views, or the old red 'ot boguey business? 'Oh, dry up! said the captain. 'No, but I want to know, said Huish.
"A-and who might your worship be?" asked Bartlemy, with a cold shudder; for he felt desperately afraid that he had got hold of Old Boguey or Old Nick it was not much matter which. "That's none of your business," said the being; "but if you must know, I am Snippinbitz, the patron of the tailors." "O lord, your worship, you don't say so!" stammered Bartlemy. "That's a fact!" returned the goblin.
"IS it?" returns his friend. "Not so easily as you think. It has been smouldering like that ever since it was lighted." "Why, what's the matter with you, Tony?" inquires Mr. Guppy, looking at him, snuffers in hand, as he sits down with his elbow on the table. "William Guppy," replies the other, "I am in the downs. It's this unbearably dull, suicidal room and old Boguey downstairs, I suppose." Mr.
"Whereupon I wrote a line to my dear boy, the Honourable William Guppy, informing him of the appointment for to-night and advising him not to call before, Boguey being a slyboots." The light vivacious tone of fashionable life which is usually assumed by Mr.
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