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Updated: June 29, 2025
At the end of that time the stranger was dismissed; and in about double the same period Brandon's servant re-admitted him, accompanied by another man, with a slouched hat and in a carman's frock. Brandon listened to the details of these confederates; and when they had finished, he addressed them thus: "I have heard you, and am convinced you are liars and impostors.
But now all were as hard as stone. Mrs. Worse herself did not seem to be so nervous as she was the day before, and when she entered Consul Carman's office, with Pitter Nilken's papers under her arm, her step was as firm and confident as a man's. It was now several years since Worse had left the firm, but some ill-feeling had long remained on both sides, and the deceased and Mr.
By degrees I discarded every part of my former dress, and wore for my upper garment a kind of carman's frock, which, being of the better sort, made me look like the son of a reputable farmer of the lower class. Thus equipped, I proceeded on my journey, and, after a thousand alarms, precautions, and circuitous deviations from the direct path, arrived safely in London.
But he managed to wind up: "And then Granny Marrowbone put it back on the mankleshelf for next time." This narrative was, of course, quite unintelligible to its hearers; but we understand it, and its mention of the carman's name.
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