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'Your health, Sir,' said Sam. 'I like your conversation much. I think it's
wery pretty.'
At this the man in blue smiled, as if it were a compliment he was well
used to; but looked approvingly on Sam at the same time, and said he
hoped he should be better acquainted with him, for without any
flattery at all he seemed to have the makings of a very nice fellow
about him, and to be just the man after his own heart.
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You're wery good, sir,' said Sam. 'What a lucky feller you are!'
How do you mean?' inquired the gentleman in blue.
That 'ere young lady,' replied Sam.'She knows wot's wot, she does.
Ah! I see.' Mr Weller closed one eye, and shook his head from side to
side, in a manner which was highly gratifying to the personal vanity of
the gentleman in blue.
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I'm afraid your a cunning fellow, Mr Weller,' said that individual.
No, no,' said Sam. 'I leave all that 'ere to you. It's a great deal more in
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your way than mine, as the gen'l'm'n on the right side o' the garden
vall said to the man on the wrong un, ven the mad bull vos a-comin'
up the lane.'
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Well, well, Mr Weller,' said the gentleman in blue, 'I think she has
remarked my air and manner, Mr Weller.'
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I should think she couldn't wery well be off o' that,' said Sam.
Have you any little thing of that kind in hand, sir?' inquired the
favoured gentleman in blue, drawing a toothpick from his waistcoat
pocket.
'Not exactly,' said Sam. 'There's no daughters at my place, else o'
course I should ha' made up to vun on 'em. As it is, I don't think I can
do with anythin' under a female markis. I might keep up with a young
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ooman o' large property as hadn't a title, if she made wery fierce love
to me. Not else.'
'Of course not, Mr Weller,' said the gentleman in blue, 'one can't be
troubled, you know; and WE know, Mr Weller - we, who are men of
the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women,
sooner or later. In fact, that's the only thing, between you and me,
that makes the service worth entering into.'
'Just so,' said Sam. 'That's it, o' course.'
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