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other dogs haunted other recesses.
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
Happily, an inhabitant of the kitchen made more despatch: a lusty dame, with tucked-up gown, bare arms, and fire-flushed cheeks, rushed into the midst of us flourishing a frying-pan: and used that weapon, and her tongue, to such purpose, that the storm subsided magically, and she only remained, heaving like a sea after a high wind, when her master entered on the scene.
The spectre showed a spectre's ordinary caprice: it gave no sign of being;
hoping sincerely she would prove a regular gossip, and either rouse me to animation or lull me to sleep by her talk.
He complained so seldom, indeed, of such stirs as these, that I really thought him not vindictive: I was deceived completely, as you will hear.
