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Updated: June 24, 2025
He noticed with surprise the strength of the bolts and bars, and iron-sheathed shutters. "You see, we are rather lonely here," said the landlord. "We never have had any attempts made to break in yet, but it's always as well to be on the safe side. When nobody is sleeping here, I am the only man in the house. My wife and daughter are timid, and the servant-girl takes after her missuses.
They're so ordinary you can't pick them out from common misters and missuses." Saying this I rose, for we had finished our dessert, and proposed coffee in the lounge. There we found Colonel Bunnion at so wilful a loose end that I could not find it in my heart to refuse him an introduction to Lola.
When nobody is sleeping here, I am the only man in the house. My wife and daughter are timid, and the servant girl takes after her missuses. Another glass of ale, before you turn in? No! Well, how such a sober man as you comes to be out of a place is more than I can understand for one. Here's where you're to sleep.
"Every syllable of it, and a quantity moor that has slipped my memory," answered the Irishman, who was inventing, but who fancied he was committing a very pious fraud "'Twould have done the Missuses heart good to have listened to the majjor, who spoke more in the charackter of a praist, like, than in that of a souldier."
"That's always the way, Miss, I've noticed, when missuses was o' mind to get claar of payin' the honest dues. But me brother" "Be off to your brother! But first go and cool your head under the water-faucet." Muttering and whining, the disconsolate Biddy crept up to the attic for her scanty wardrobe.
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