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Hubble might like to see you in your new gen-teel figure too, Pip," said Joe, industriously cutting his bread, with his cheese on it, in the palm of his left hand, and glancing at my untasted supper as if he thought of the time when we used to compare slices. "So might Wopsle. And the Jolly Bargemen might take it as a compliment." "That's just what I don't want, Joe.
The urbanity of manner and blandness of expression increased as he returned the salutation. "T'anks, t'anks. I vill go for hubble vat you call hobble me horse," he said, taking the animal's bridle and leading it a short distance from the fire. "I don't like the look of him," whispered Fred to Paul when he was out of earshot. "Sure, an' I howld the same opinion," said Flinders. "Pooh!
Indeed, the clergymen everywhere supported us, as defenders of the Protestant faith, which that dastard James would have destroyed. Mr. Hubble made some excuse for not taking me in at the instant; but gave us letters of introduction to people in towns further on, so that we could pass the militia without difficulty, to give the news in western Dorset.
But my master forgot that he had neither the arms nor the officers to make his faction a likely body for regular troops to join. We spread the tidings as far as Exeter, where Mr. Blick made some pretence of handing me over to a schoolmaster, one Hubble, a red-faced, cheery clergyman, one of the most ardent rebels on our side.
I remember Mr Hubble as a tough, high-shouldered, stooping old man, of a sawdusty fragrance, with his legs extraordinarily wide apart: so that in my short days I always saw some miles of open country between them when I met him coming up the lane. Among this good company I should have felt myself, even if I hadn't robbed the pantry, in a false position.
After looking a little at her downcast eyes as she walked beside me, I gave up that point. "I suppose it will be difficult for you to remain here now, Biddy dear?" "Oh! I can't do so, Mr. Pip," said Biddy, in a tone of regret but still of quiet conviction. "I have been speaking to Mrs. Hubble, and I am going to her to-morrow. I hope we shall be able to take some care of Mr.
Wopsle, the clerk at church, was to dine with us; and Mr. Hubble the wheelwright and Mrs. The dinner hour was half-past one. When Joe and I got home, we found the table laid, and Mrs. And still, not a word of the robbery. The time came, without bringing with it any relief to my feelings, and the company came. Mr.
As long as the supply lasted, the mysterious gurglings of his "Hubble Bubble," or cocoa-nut water-pipe, might be heard at almost any hour of the day or night.
Standing at this table, I became conscious of the servile Pumblechook in a black cloak and several yards of hatband, who was alternately stuffing himself, and making obsequious movements to catch my attention. I then descried Mr. and Mrs. Hubble; the last-named in a decent speechless paroxysm in a corner. "Which I meantersay, Pip," Joe whispered me, as we were being what Mr.
Their discourses did more credit to their hearts than to their heads. I recall some of their preachers, or Elders, as they were called, very distinctly Elder Jim Mead, Elder Morrison, Elder Hewett, Elder Fuller, Elder Hubble all farmers and unlearned in the lore of this world, but earnest men and some of them strong, picturesque characters.
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