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Updated: May 11, 2025
He laughs and beams, and looks as innocent as you like, and says, 'But I don't know the value of these things. What am I to DO with this? 'Spend it, sir, says I. 'But I shall be taken in, he says, 'they won't give me the right change, I shall lose it, it's no use to me. Lord, you never saw such a face as he carried it with! Of course he told me where to find Toughey, and I found him."
As we ascended the hill, he looked about him with a sharp eye the day was now breaking and reminded me that I had come down it one night, as I had reason for remembering, with my little servant and poor Jo, whom he called Toughey. I wondered how he knew that. "When you passed a man upon the road, just yonder, you know," said Mr. Bucket. Yes, I remembered that too, very well.
I involuntarily returned for answer that I perceived Mr. Bucket knew him. "Why, now I'll tell you, Miss Summerson," he replied. "Your mind will be all the better for not running on one point too continually, and I'll tell you for a change. It was him as pointed out to me where Toughey was.
So I smoothed him down a bit about not wanting to disturb the family after they was gone to bed and about its being a thing to be regretted that charitable young ladies should harbour vagrants; and then, when I pretty well understood his ways, I said I should consider a fypunnote well bestowed if I could relieve the premises of Toughey without causing any noise or trouble.
I made up my mind that night to come to the door and ask for Toughey, if that was all; but willing to try a move or so first, if any such was on the board, I just pitched up a morsel of gravel at that window where I saw a shadow. As soon as Harold opens it and I have had a look at him, thinks I, you're the man for me.
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