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"Mr Coverdale!--Mr Coverdale!" said he, repeatingand ineffectual way in which he

uttered it "I ask your pardon, sir, but I hear you are going to

Blithedale tomorrow"

I knew the pale, elderly face, with the red-tipt nose, and the patch

over one eye; and likewise saw so under the arch of a gate, only revealing

enough of hinize him as an acquaintance He was

a very shy personage, this Mr Moodie; and the trait was thehis bread necessarily brought hienerality ofwhat interest he could take in

the fact, "it is o to Blithedale to-morrow Can I be

of any service to you before my departure?"

"If you pleased, Mr Coverdale," said he, "you reat one?" repeated I, in a tone that must have expressed but

little alacrity of beneficence, although I was ready to do the oldno special trouble to reat favor, do you say? My tiood h to tell me what you

wish"