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FARTHER ALONG THE ROAD.
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going in and sitting down and having some too!'
'But surely you know?' said Dick, with great apparent suprise. 'Yes, yes! Ha-ha!' smiting the landlord under the ribs in return.
'Why, what? Yes, yes; ha-ha!'
'You know, yes; ha-ha, of course!'
'Yes, of course! But—that is—I don't.'
'Why about—between that young lady and me?' nodding to the window of the room Fancy occupied.
'No; not I!' bringing his eyes into mathematical circles.
'And you don't!'
'Not a word, I'll take my oath!'
'But you laughed, when I laughed.'
'Ay, that was me sympathy; so did you when I laughed!'
'Really, you don't know? Goodness—not knowing that!'