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'Oh!' said he, when Arthur told hiht If he should ask for Pancks, will you be so good as to say

that Pancks is come in?' And so, with a snort and a puff, he worked out

by another door

Now, in the old days at ho the

last of the Patriarchs, which were afloat in the air, had, by sootten means, come in contact with Arthur's sensorium He are

of motes and specks of suspicion in the atmosphere of that time; seen

through which npost, without

any Inn--an invitation to rest and be thankful, when there was no place

to put up at, and nothing whatever to be thankful for He knew that some

of these specks even represented Christopher as capable of harbouring

designs in 'that head,' and as being a crafty impostor Other motes

there hich showed hi stuainst other

h life with ease and credit,

he had but to hold his tongue, keep the bald part of his head well

polished, and leave his hair alone, had had just cunning enough to seize

the idea and stick to it

It was said that his being town-agent to

Lord Deci the least