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The spaniel was a great bore, begging and doing small tricks first at one and then at the other of us. Neither of us used his name. You see we had called him Miggles, and made a sort of trio in the baby-talk of Mutney and Miggles and Ming. Then presently we resumed our monstrous, momentous dialogue. I can't now make out how long that dialogue went on.
The rain still beat upon the roof, wandering gusts of wind stirred the embers into momentary brightness, until, in a lull of the elements, Miggles suddenly lifted up her head, and, throwing her hair over her shoulder, turned her face upon the group and asked: "Is there any of you that knows me?" There was no reply. "Think again! I lived at Marysville in '53.
And here Miggles caught her dripping oilskin hat from her head, with a mischievous swirl that scattered a shower of raindrops over us; attempted to put back her hair; dropped two hairpins in the attempt; laughed and sat down beside Yuba Bill, with her hands crossed lightly on her lap. The Judge recovered himself first, and essayed an extravagant compliment.
He'd ask to see 'Miggles's baby, as he called Jim, and when he'd go away, he'd say, 'Miggles; you're a trump God bless you'; and it didn't seem so lonely after that.
He picked the people up at Rome, I think? The phrase would have given nobody mortal offence. Clennam replied, 'Excuse me, I doubt if I understand your expression. 'Came upon them. Found them out. Stumbled UP against them. 'The people? 'Yes. The Miggles people. 'I really cannot say, said Clennam, 'where my friend Mr Meagles first presented Mr Henry Gowan to his daughter.
The Judge, who had finally got the window down, put his head out and propounded a series of questions, which if answered categorically would have undoubtedly elucidated the whole mystery, but which the driver evaded by replying that "if we didn't want to sit in the coach all night, we had better rise up and sing out for Miggles." So we rose up and called on Miggles in chorus; then separately.
Miggles darted a quick, half-defiant glance at the two lady passengers who I had noticed did not participate in the general masculine admiration of Miggles, and said gravely, "No; it's Jim." There was an awkward pause.
"Consider the inhospitality of refusing shelter from the inclemency of the weather to helpless females. Really, my dear sir " But a succession of "Miggles," ending in a burst of laughter, drowned his voice. Yuba Bill hesitated no longer. Taking a heavy stone from the road, he battered down the gate, and with the expressman entered the enclosure. We followed. Nobody was to be seen.
Oh, of course, there are a hundred absurd stories about him, they used to say that he lived all alone in a cabin like a savage, and all that sort of thing, and was a friend of a dubious woman in the locality, whom the common people made a heroine of, Miggles, or Wiggles, or some such preposterous name. But look at John there; can you conceive it?"
Before we could answer she had opened the door, and disclosed a half-grown grizzly, who instantly raised himself on his haunches, with his forepaws hanging down in the popular attitude of mendicancy, and looked admiringly at Miggles, with a very singular resemblance in his manner to Yuba Bill. "That's my watch dog," said Miggles, in explanation.
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