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Without a moment's indecision, Mr Flintwinch accepted the invitation,

and they went out to the quarters where the traveller was lodged,

through a heavy rain which had rattled on the s, roofs, and

pave had long ago

passed over, but the rain was furious On their arrival at Mr Blandois'

rooentle he could collect, in the soft disposition

of his dainty figure) coiled himself upon the -seat, while Mr

Flintwinch took a chair opposite to hi the largest glasses in the house, to which Mr

Flintwinch assented The buaiety, clinked the top of his glass against the bottoainst the top of Mr

Flintwinch's, and drank to the intied hi As often as Mr Blandois clinked glasses (which was

at every replenish, and would have stolidly done his co, except in the article of palate, a mere cask

In short, Mr Blandois found that to pour port wine into the reticent

Flintwinch was, not to open him but to shut him up Moreover, he had