Anything suggestive of a Pony nightmare was delicious to him . He had even lost money -LRB- and he took to that toy very kindly -RRB- by getting up Goblin slides for magic lanterns , whereon the Powers of Darkness were depicted as a sort of supernatural shell-fish , with human faces . In intensifying the portraiture of Giants , he had sunk quite a little capital ; and , though no painter himself , he could indicate , for the instruction of his artists , with a piece of chalk , a certain furtive leer for the countenances of those monsters , which was safe to destroy the peace of mind of any young gentleman between the ages of six and eleven , for the whole Christmas or Midsummer Vacation . What he was in toys , he was -LRB- as most men are -RRB- in other things . You may easily suppose , therefore , that within the great green cape , which reached down to the calves of his legs , there was buttoned up to the chin an uncommonly pleasant fellow ; and that he was about as choice a spirit , and as agreeable a companion , as ever stood in a pair of bull-headed-looking boots with mahogany-coloured tops . Still , Tackleton , the toy merchant , was going to be married . In spite of all this , he was going to be married . And to a young wife too , a beautiful young wife . He did n't look much like a Bridegroom , as he stood in the Carrier 's kitchen , with a twist in his dry face , and a screw in his body , and his hat jerked over the bridge of his nose , and his hands tucked down into the bottoms of his pockets , and his whole sarcastic , ill-conditioned self peering out of one little corner of one little eye , like the concentrated essence of any number of ravens . But a Bridegroom he designed to be . `` In three days ' time . Next Thursday . The last day of the first month in the year . That 's my wedding-day , '' said Tackleton . Did I mention that he had always one eye wide open , and one eye nearly shut ; and that the one eye nearly shut was always the expressive eye ? I do n't think I did . `` That 's my wedding-day ! '' said Tackleton , rattling his money . `` Why , it 's our wedding-day too , '' exclaimed the Carrier . `` Ha , ha ! ''
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