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Agravating Benjamin, seeing what she was about, roused up a little, chuckled and tapped in imitation of her, got an idea of his own into his muddled head all of a sudden, and bolted it out charitably for the benefit of Trottle.

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It was getting towards dark, on Monday evening, the thirteenth of the month, when Trottle first set foot on the steps of the House.

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Trottle leaned over close to me, and pointed through the window to the empty house.

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The old wretch came so near to Trottle, before she answered, and jammed him up confidentially so close into the corner of the landing, that his throat, in a manner, rose at her.

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Trottle sat down with the look of a martyr, and Jarber began to read with his back turned on the enemy more decidedly than ever.

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Trottle followed her in; and, for once in his life, at any rate, was struck dumb with amazement, at the sight which the inside of the room revealed to him.

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Trottle wondered whether “him” meant a man, or a boy, or a domestic animal of the male species.

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Trottle hastened away up-stairs, as actively as if he had been a young man, to fetch the child down.

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I made this arrangement, not only because there was a good deal to take care of in the way of my school-children and pensioners, and also of a new stove in the hall to air the house in my absence, which appeared to me calculated to blow up and burst; but, likewise because I suspect Trottle

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It was evident to me — and, I could see, to Trottle also — that we were not dealing, to say the least, with a dishonest man.

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