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'It isn't particular agreeable to the gentleman, I dare say. 'Then you shouldn't have brought it up, returned Mr Codlin; 'and I ask the gentleman's pardon on your account, as a giddy chap that likes to hear himself talk, and don't much care what he talks about, so that he does talk.
Codlin and Short The sun was setting when little Nell and her grandfather, who had been wandering many days, reached the wicket gate of a country churchyard.
'Shut the door, can't you? said Mr Codlin, turning gruffly to his friend. 'You might have knowed that the gentleman wanted the door shut, without being told, I think. Mr Short obeyed, observing under his breath that his friend seemed unusually 'cranky, and expressing a hope that there was no dairy in the neighbourhood, or his temper would certainly spoil its contents.
'That is the intention, governor, replied the other, 'and unless I'm much mistaken, Tommy Codlin is a calculating at this minute what we've lost through your coming upon us. Cheer up, Tommy, it can't be much. The little man accompanied these latter words with a wink, expressive of the estimate he had formed of the travellers' finances.
I think they're breaking up down stairs; you needn't tell Short, you know, that we've had this little talk together. God bless you. Recollect the friend. Codlin's the friend, not Short. Short's very well as far as he goes, but the real friend is Codlin not Short.
They greeted the strangers with a nod, and the old man sitting down beside them, and looking at the figures with extreme delight, began to talk. While they chatted, Mr. Short, a little merry, red-faced man with twinkling eyes, turning over the figures in the box, drew one forth, saying ruefully to his companion, Codlin by name: "Look here, here's all this Judy's clothes falling to pieces again.
That night, from various conversations in which Codlin and Short took pains to engage her, little Nell began to have misgivings concerning their protestations of friendship, and to suspect their motives. These misgivings made the child anxious and uneasy, as the party travelled on towards the town where the races were to begin next day.
But, from the point where Mr Codlin was charged with sleepiness, he had shown an increasing interest in the discussion: which now attained a very high pitch. 'You are the two men I want, he said, 'the two men I have been looking for, and searching after! Where are that old man and that child you speak of? 'Sir? said Short, hesitating, and looking towards his friend.
Therefore when they dewelop an intention of parting company from us, I shall take measures for detainin' of 'em and restoring them to their friends, who, I dare say, have had their disconsolation pasted up on every wall in London by this time. "Short," said Mr. Codlin, "it's possible there may be uncommon good sense in what you've said.
Mr Codlin trudged heavily on, exchanging a word or two at intervals with Short, and stopping to rest and growl occasionally. Nell and her grandfather walked next him on either hand, and Thomas Codlin brought up the rear.
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