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Title: Master Humphrey's clock
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Cattermole, George, 1800-1868, ill Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882, ill
Subjects: Gordon Riots, 1780
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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mer. No wonder that a man should grow restlessunder such an inspection as this, to say nothing of the eyes belonging to shortTom Cobb the general chandler and post-office keeper, and long Phil Parkesthe ranger, both of whom, infected by the example of their companions, regardedhim of the flapped hat no less attentively. The stranger became restless ; perhaps from being exposed to this raking fireof eyes, perhaps from the nature of his previous meditations—most probablyfrom the latter cause, for as he changed his position and looked hastily round,he started to find himself the object of such keen regard, and darted an angryand suspicious glance at the fireside group. It had the effect of immediately BARNABY RUDGE. 283 diverting all eyes to the chimney, except those of John Willet, who findinghimself, as it were, caught in the fjict, and not being (as has been alreadyobserved) of a very ready nature, remained staring at his guest in a particularlyawkward and disconcerted manner. ^M\^:
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Well V said the stranger. Well. There was not much in well. It was not a long speech. I thoughtyou gave an order, said the landlord, after a pause of two or three minutes forconsideration. The sti-anger took off his hat, and disclosed the hard features of a man ofsixty or thereabouts, much weather-beaten and worn by time, and the naturallyharsh expression of which was not improved by a dark handkerchief whichwas bound tightly round his head, and, while it served the purpose of a wig,shaded his forehead, and almost hid his eyebrows. If it were intended to con-ceal or divert attention from a deep gash, now healed into an ugly seam,which when it was first inflicted must have laid bare his cheekbone, theobject was but indifferently attained, for it could scarcely fail to bo noted ata glance. His complexion was of a cadaverous hue, and he had a grizzlyjagged beard of some three weeks date. Such was the figure (very meanlyand poorly clad) that now rose from the seat, and stalking across the

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