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Now and again, as some long number or specially magniloquent phrase would strike his ear, he expressed his surprise by a sort of gasp; but throughout the whole morning he did not speak a word as to the business on hand. Jones for the first few minutes attempted to criticize; but the authority of Mr. Sloman and the burly aspect of Mr.
Wait till I eat a biscuit, and I'll drive you over in my carriage." Shrewd little man! thought I: if I am a convict or a lunatic with designs on Mrs. Sloman, he is going to be there to see. "Till he ate a biscuit?" I should think so.
No exaggeration of laughter or fun, but the brightness of her every-day manner, teasing and sparkling round Aunt Sloman, coquetting very naturally with me. It was a swift change from the gloomy atmosphere we had left behind in the parlor, and I basked in it delighted, and feeling, poor fool! that the storm was cleared away, and that the time for the singing of birds was come.
At Berwick the travellers got into trouble with the sentry, but the mistake was rectified with the captain of the guard over '2 bowles of punch, there being no wine in the town. Scotland was now in sight, and the travellers became grave, as befitted the occasion. Taylor, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Sloman were as brave as Mr. Pickwick, and they would on.
My train starts at nine to-morrow morning, but you will be ready will you not? at six to take a morning walk with me. I will be here at that hour. You don't know how disturbed and anxious I shall be till then." Morning came or rather the long night came to an end at last and at twenty minutes before six I opened the gate at the Sloman cottage.
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