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Hewitt concluded with a confidential frown, a nod, and a wink, and took another mouthful of whisky. Then he added, as an after-thought: "So I'm glad you haven't been there lately." Wilks looked in Hewitt's face and asked: "Is that straight?" "Is it?" replied Hewitt with emphasis. "You go and have a look, if you ain't afraid of being smugged yourself.
Poor old Goody Clackett for that was her name had little thoughts of ever being "smugged," as it was termed, by our schoolfellows to make a guy on the fifth of November, and sat quietly enough spinning her wheel and drawing out her yarn. Sometimes the thrum of the old wheel would send her soundly to sleep, and then she never dreamed of such a thing as was to happen to her.
So saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests. The Penitent Elector A Person belonging to the Society for Passing Resolutions of Respect for the Memory of Deceased Members having died received the customary attention. "Good Heavens!" exclaimed a Sovereign Elector, on hearing the resolutions read, "what a loss to the nation!
But I expected that, Hollams is such a greedy pig. Once he's got you under his thumb he don't give you half your makings, and, if you kick, he'll have you smugged. So that I wasn't going to give him that if I could help it. I s'pose it ain't any good asking how you got put on to our mob?" "No," said Hewitt, "it isn't."