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For, on the very first bench, these were the faces on which his eye had to rest, watching whether there was any stirring under the stagnant surface. Right in front of him probably because he was stone-deaf, and it was deemed more edifying to hear nothing at a short distance than at a long one sat 'Old Maxum', as he was familiarly called, his real patronymic remaining a mystery to most persons.
Miss Fodge fixed her one sore eye on Mr. Barton with a sort of hardy defiance. Beyond this member of the softer sex, at the end of the bench, sat 'Silly Jim', a young man afflicted with hydrocephalus, who rolled his head from side to side, and gazed at the point of his nose. These were the supporters of Old Maxum on his right. On his left sat Mr.
The three W's is my maxum: plenty of work, plenty of wittles, and plenty of wages. Altamont kep his gig no longer, but went to the city in an omlibuster. One would have thought, I say, that Mrs. A., with such an effeckshnut husband, might have been as happy as her blessid majisty. Nothing of the sort.
FIRST FELLOW The Squire has got spunk in him. SECOND FELLOW I loves to hear him sing, bekeays he never gives us nothing that's low. THIRD FELLOW O, damn anything that's low; I cannot bear it. FOURTH FELLOW The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if so be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. THIRD FELLOW I likes the maxum of it. Master Muggins.
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