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"Oh, get out!" he said gruffly, and he half turned away. "We've no time for picking sixpenn'orths, boy. Run up into the road to the greengrocer's shop." My face grew scarlet, and the beautiful garden seemed as if it was under a cloud instead of the full blaze of sunshine, while I turned upon my heel and was walking straight back. "Here!" I walked on. "Hi, boy!" shouted old Brownsmith.
The sixpenn'orths of brandy Depper, too late relenting, spared from the sum he had hitherto expended on his own beer public-house brandy, poisonous stuff, but accredited by the labouring population of Dulditch with all but magical restorative powers for once failed in its effect.
He took his dinner and his supper in that cosy apartment; and he sat there all the evening, listening to and joining in the conversation of the Lisfordians, and drinking sixpenn'orths of gin-and-water, with the air of a man who could consume a hogshead of the juice of the juniper-berry without experiencing any evil consequences therefrom.
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