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He had never thought of going away, when he sent me for it. I must keep it for him, if you please! 'Tho be it, my dear. My latht wordth to you ith thith, Thtick to the termth of your engagement, be obedient to the Thquire, and forget uth.
"Mithter Jaggerth! Half a moment! My hown cuthen'th gone to Mithter Wemmick at thith prethent minute, to hoffer him hany termth. Mithter Jaggerth! Half a quarter of a moment! If you'd have the condethenthun to be bought off from the t'other thide at hany thuperior prithe! money no object! Mithter Jaggerth Mithter !"
"No, thuh," he was wont to say, with his inimitable lisp "no, thuh, you can't keep a good man down. 'Tain't no use a-talkin', you jeth can't. It don't do me no harm to go back to rubbin' now an' then. It jeth nachully keepth me on good termth with de hothes." And, indeed, it did seem that his prophecies were surer and his knowledge more direct after one of these periods of enforced humility.
"Farewell, Thethilia!" he said, "my latht wordth to you ith thith: Thtick to the termth of your engagement, be obedient to the Thquire, and forget uth. But if, when you're grown up and married and well off, you come upon any horthe-riding ever, don't be hard upon it, don't be croth with it, give it a Bethpeak if you can, and think you might do worth.
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