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Updated: May 26, 2025
'Most extraordinary female this, thought Mr. Pickwick, popping in again. 'Ha-hum! These last sounds, so like those in which, as legends inform us, the ferocious giant Blunderbore was in the habit of expressing his opinion that it was time to lay the cloth, were too distinctly audible to be again mistaken for the workings of fancy. 'Gracious Heaven! said the middle-aged lady, 'what's that?
The very idea of exhibiting his nightcap to a lady overpowered him, but he had tied those confounded strings in a knot, and, do what he would, he couldn't get it off. The disclosure must be made. There was only one other way of doing it. He shrunk behind the curtains, and called out very loudly 'Ha-hum!
"Wouldn't it be fun to see Peter's face when he comes in, though? Ha-hum! I've enjoyed doing this but why? Nancy Rogerson, don't be asking yourself conundrums. Put on your hat and proceed homeward, constructing on your way some reliable fib to account to Louisa for the absence of your strawberries." Nancy paused a moment and looked around wistfully.
He was the officer of the watch, and was standing alongside the man at the wheel on the weather-side of the ship, with a telescope under his arm and a keen look of attention in his merry, twinkling grey eyes. "Ha-hum!" muttered the captain to himself reflectively.
"Why do you ask that, may I inquire?" interrogated Bart, pleasantly, but standing his ground. "Ha-hum!" retorted the stranger, "why do ask. Because I am the superintendent of the express company, young man, and somewhat interested in knowing, I fancy!" Bart did not lose his presence of mind, but he fully realized that he faced a critical moment in his career.
For a long time the boys could discover nothing, but at last they caught sight of a little splash of water four or five hundred yards below, where a trickling stream entered the main river at a low place. "He'll stood there an' fight the fly, maybe so," said Moise. "Ha-hum! Why he'll don' see us I don' know, me. Why the boat he'll not scare heem I'll don' know, me, too.
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