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"All right, John, all right," returned the oldhimself

spoken to

"Only tip him a nod every now and then when he looks off his paper,"

said We We are all attention,

Aged One"

"All right, John, all right!" returned the cheerful old man, so busy and

so pleased, that it really was quite char reminded me of the classes at Mr Wopsle's

great-aunt's, with the pleasanter peculiarity that it seeh a keyhole As he wanted the candles close to hi either his head or the newspaper into

the as a powder-ilance, and the Aged read on,

quite unconscious of his many rescues Whenever he looked at us, we

all expressed the greatest interest and aain

As Wemmick and Miss Skiffins sat side by side, and as I sat in a shadowy

corner, I observed a slow and gradual elongation of Mr Weradually stealing his arm round

Miss Skiffins's waist In course of time I saw his hand appear on the

other side of Miss Skiffins; but at that love, unwound his arreatest deliberation laid it on the

table before her Miss Skiffins's composure while she did this was one