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Chapter VI - Sleary's Horsemanship |
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'Yes, I was.' 'Then,' continued Mr. Childers, quickly, 'my opinion is, he will never receive it. Do you know much of him?' 'I never saw the man in my life.' 'I doubt if you ever will see him now. It's pretty plain to me, he's off.' 'Do you mean that he has deserted his daughter?' 'Ay! I mean,' said Mr. Childers, with a nod, 'that he has cut. He was goosed last night, he was goosed the night before last, he was goosed to-day. He has lately got in the way of being always goosed, and he can't stand it.' 'Why has he been - so very much - Goosed?' asked Mr. Gradgrind, forcing the word out of himself, with great solemnity and reluctance. 'His joints are turning stiff, and he is getting used up,' said Childers. 'He has his points as a Cackler still, but he can't get a living out of them.' 'A Cackler!' Bounderby repeated. 'Here we go again!' 'A speaker, if the gentleman likes it better,' said Mr. E. W. B. Childers, superciliously throwing the interpretation over his shoulder, and accompanying it with a shake of his long hair - which all shook at once. 'Now, it's a remarkable fact, sir, that it cut that man deeper, to know that his daughter knew of his being goosed, than to go through with it.' |
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