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They were not his; and at last, in a spirit of proud independence, he ignored his own services to his uncle, and stubbornly determined that he would take nothing but the clothes in which he stood. "And some day I'll send the money to pay for them," he said proudly, half aloud. "Gug gug gug ghur-r-r-r," came from his cousin's bed as if in derision.
"I care not if there are but three inhabitants Graustark, all told, it is certainly worthy of a position on any map," said Lorry, gallantly; and his listeners applauded with patriotic appreciation. "By the way, Mr. Gug Guggenslocker, you say the conductor asked you for my name and you did not know it. May I ask how you learned it later on?"
In moments of intense excitement he was said to have delivered himself of the word "Gug" also, but doubts were cast upon this. He was of a placid and obliging nature, a diligent and trustworthy worker, and on the whole a cheerful companion with whom one could never fall out by word of mouth, at all events.
The chaps were half mad, and were dancing about the planks, and all bubbling over with excitement, as they tried to get a peep at you. And when oh, my! we did at last come up to you, a nice pretty respectable lot you looked, lying about in the boat, with no more discipline than you'd see in a shoal of seals on a rock. You looked as if you had all been pitched in anyhow, and gug!"
"If you please, 'M, here's Mr Oh! dear; oh! hoo hoo guggle guggle gug gug gug; choke choke; cough cough," went Mary, burying her face in her apron, and completely losing her breath, and turning almost black in the face with, her efforts to stifle her laughter.
His voice was hoarse and trembling. "Miss Gug Guggenslocker?" cried Anguish. "Yes! Yes!" They had stopped and Lorry was grasping a garden wall with one hand. "Then it's funny nobody knows the name here. She seems to be someone of consequence. Good heaven, I don't blame you! She's the most beautiful " By this time the carriage was almost opposite and within forty feet of where they stood.
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