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Bunce had entirely accepted the story he told about himself to the effect that he had once been "in an office in the city," and looked upon him as a superannuated bank clerk, too old to be kept on in his former line of business.
Bunce thought that his lodger was very wrong to sit for Lord Brentford's borough, subjects were sometimes touched which were a little galling to Phineas. Touching this promotion, Bunce had nothing but condolement to offer to the new junior lord.
"There does seem to be something in this; and it stands to reason, what will do for a nation of pedlers won't do for us. Why, when I recollect that they are buried in snows half the year, and living on nothing else the other half, I wonder how they get the water to boil at all. Answer that, Bunce."
And Bunce knew it, after his fashion. "Don't be such an old fool," he said, "crying after him because he's six foot high." "I ain't crying after him because he's six foot high," whined the poor woman; "but one does like old faces better than new, and a gentleman about one's place is pleasant." "Gentleman be d d," said Bunce.
Shall I sit down here? Yes? Very good. Please take your seat beside me, Mr. Hawkins." The stranger blushed, fumbled his hat, and sat down bashfully in the place designated. "Are you ready to proceed, gentlemen?" inquired the referee over his spectacles. "Call your first witness." Bunce, who had been fidgeting in his eagerness to tell what he knew, instantly bobbed up and asked to be sworn.
He's a likely chap, and not so stiff neither, though I did count him rather high-headed at first; but after that, he sort a smoothed down, and now I don't know nobody I'd sooner help jest now out of the slush: but I can't see how we're to set about it." "Can you fight, Bunce? Are you willing to knock down and drag out, when there's need for it?"
After taking some slight refreshment, she hurried on; Bunce, keeping the road afoot, alongside, with all the patient docility of a squire of the middle ages; and to the great satisfaction of all parties, they arrived in sight of the village just as Counsellor Pippin, learned in the law, was disputing with the state attorney upon the non-admissibility of certain points of testimony, which it was the policy of the former to exclude.
He now made known to the pedler her place of concealment, which he had, some time before this event, himself discovered; but which, through dread of Rivers, for whom he seemed to entertain an habitual fear, he had never ventured to penetrate. "Well, I must see her," exclaimed Bunce. "I a'n't afraid, 'cause you see, Mr.
"That's the game," said Handy, triumphantly pocketing the petition; "we're all in a boat now, that is, the nine of us; and as for old Bunce, and his cronies, they may " But as he was hobbling off to the door, with a crutch on one side and a stick on the other, he was met by Bunce himself. "Well Handy, and what may old Bunce do?" said the gray-haired, upright senior.
"I'm not 'doctor, my man!" he said "have no degree no qualification no diploma no anything whatever but just a little, a very little common sense, yes! And I am simply Bunce," and here a smile spread out all the furrows in his face and lit up his eyes; "Or, as the small boys call me, Dunce!"
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