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But, to return from this digression: Mrs Foster was congratulating herself on having discovered the error in her accounts, when the door opened and a stout florid woman, of fifty or thereabouts, with a shiny red skin, presented herself and said: "Please, ma'am, here's a gentleman as wants to see you, and won't go away, though I told him you was at tea, w'ich is a fact, though it had no impression whatever on him, such is his imprence, goin' for to reflect on my character for truth, as never told a lie since I was a baby in long frocks, so I didn't; but it's always the way with these men that go tax-gatherin', though I don't know that he's that neether, so I don't; what shall I say, ma'am?"
He turned at last into a narrow, quiet street, and going up to the door of a shabby-genteel house, applied the knocker with considerable vigour. "Now then, go along with you; we don't want your services here; we clear off our own snow, we do. Imprence! to knock, too, as if he was a gentleman!"
I's noticed, in my 'sperience, dat de young slabes as has got most self-conceit an' imprence is allers hardest to kill." "I scarce know whether to take that as encouragement or otherwise," returned Foster, with the first laugh he had given vent to for a long time. "Take it how you please, Geo'ge, as de doctor said to de dyin' man won't matter much in de long-run.
Hope was a powerful element in Captain Bream's nature. He rose quickly and stopped to gaze attentively into a female face, but it was so dark where she sat on a low box that he could hardly see her, and took a step forward. "Well, Mr Imprence, I hope as you'll know me again," said the woman, whose face was fiery red, and whose nature was furious. "What do you want here?"
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