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countenance fell, and that he became uncomfortable. At last, when
we had passed a couple of hours or so, very agreeably, he suddenly
took up his hat, and leaning over the table and looking me full in
the face, said, in a low voice: “Weel, Misther, we’ve been vara
pleasant toogather, and ar’ll spak’ my moind tiv’ee. Dinnot let the
weedur send her lattle boy to yan o’ our school-measthers, while
there’s a harse to hoold in a’ Lunnun, or a gootther to lie asleep in.
Ar wouldn’t mak’ ill words amang my neeburs, and ar speak tiv’ee
quiet loike. But I’m dom’d if ar can gang to bed and not tellee, for
weedur’s sak’, to keep the lattle boy from a’ sike scoondrels while
there’s a harse to hoold in a’ Lunnun, or a gootther to lie asleep
in!” Repeating these words with great heartiness, and with a
solemnity on his jolly face that made it look twice as large as
before, he shook hands and went away. I never saw him
afterwards, but I sometimes imagine that I descry a faint reflection
of him in John Browdie.

In reference to these gentry, I may here quote a few words from
the original preface to this book.

“It has afforded the Author great amusement and satisfaction,
during the progress of this work, to learn, from country friends
and from a variety of ludicrous statements concerning himself in
provincial newspapers, that more than one Yorkshire
schoolmaster lays claim to being the original of Mr. Squeers. One
worthy, he has reason to believe, has actually consulted
authorities learned in the law, as to his having good grounds on
which to rest an action for libel; another, has meditated a journey
to London, for the express purpose of committing an assault and
battery on his traducer; a third, perfectly remembers being waited
on, last January twelve-month, by two gentlemen, one of whom


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