CHAPTER XI. 



CHEZ CLUMBER — DEAFNESS — BUSINESS — TITLE PRICE — 

 FAILURE — SQUINTING TOM — SPOKER — MY TRIAL — 

 OVER — RESOLUTION. 



EALLY, Clumber is astonished to see Trott. 

 Tiott is cheery and good-humoured vrith CUini- 

 ber, who, however, eyes him sulkily. 



[We are now as the French say dies 

 Cluinberj v.-e've just been, as the cockneys say, " Sliay 

 Trott."] 



Unusually deaf, too, Clumber appears to be this morning. 

 If he'd only seen us over his wire window-blind, and hadn't 

 been standing at his own door, he'd have gone up to his 

 bedroom and sent the squinting Ostler to say '* Not at 

 home." 



But we caught him. 



I am sure he is now meditating his line of conduct: — 

 First. Shall he say the horse isn't in ? 

 Secondly. Shall he say his Father-in-law won't part with 

 it? 



Thirdly. Or that the "gentleman in Devonshire vrho's 

 been sweet on her this ever so long " has written to say that 

 he'll have her for seventy down ? 



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