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As he is going to do so again, he happens to look at his coat-sleeve. It takes his attention. He stares at it, aghast. "Why, Tony, what on earth is going on in this house to-night? Is there a chimney on fire?" "Chimney on fire!" "Ah!" returns Mr. Guppy. "See how the soot's falling. See here, on my arm! See again, on the table here! Confound the stuff, it won't blow off smears like black fat!"
Truth is I came to warn you after he'd gone up to the Hall, but seein' how you was engaged, thought it a pity to interrupt, though now I wish I had." Godfrey groaned; there was nothing to say. "Well, all the soot's in the cooking-pot now, so to speak," proceeded Tom blandly, "and we're downright sad about it, we are, for as my missus was saying, you'd make a pretty pair.
I turned around to let him have the weight of my tongue when who should I see dodging along Stony Batter only Joe Hynes. Lo, Joe, says I. How are you blowing? Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his brush? Soot's luck, says Joe. Who's the old ballocks you were talking to? Old Troy, says I, was in the force.
Soot's man delivered three separate envelopes at the door, and they looked like letters from some bereaved giant. The envelopes were twenty inches by fourteen, and made of cartridge-paper; the black border was two inches deep, and the black seals must have consumed a stick of sealing-wax among them.
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