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He became so excited, too, that he forgot to take note of time, and his audience were so interested that they paid no attention whatever to the Dutch clock with the horrified countenance, which, by the way, looked if possible more horrified than it used to do in the Bu'ster's early days.
Mrs Gaff relieved her feelings by slapping the Bu'ster's face, and was about to close the window when her husband quietly stepped through it again, saying "Open the door, lass, you've no need to fear; I'll remain now." There was a trampling of many feet outside. The door had scarcely been unlocked when they were in the passage.
There must have been a hitch in the line, however, for it was suddenly checked in its uncoiling, and the violence of the stoppage wrenched the reel from his grasp, and the whole affair disappeared beneath the calm water! The Bu'ster's heart smote him. He had not meant anything so wicked as that. "Ha! you young rascal, I saw you," said one of the men coming up at that moment.
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