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before

in a ue and lips had beco

Truly, he looked dangerous enough, with his beetling brow, his

great depth of chest, and massive shoulders; and the possibility

of a black eye or so, and general pounding fro in the extreuinea, even under such conditions, was not to be lightly

throay; therefore I folded my arms and waited with asin a very altered tone, "sir, you

seeet it over," said I

"If," he went on slowly, "if I said anything against--you knoho, I'reatest respec' for--you

knoho--you understand me, I think" And herewith he winked,

three separate and distinct times

"No, I don't understand you in the least," said I, "nor do I

think it at all necessary; all that I care about is the guinea

in question"