replied Dot , turning very red . `` Do n't talk about honouring me . Good gracious ! '' `` By-the-bye '' -- observed the Carrier -- `` that old gentleman -- '' Again so visibly and instantly embarrassed ! `` He 's an odd fish , '' said the Carrier , looking straight along the road before them . `` I ca n't make him out . I do n't believe there 's any harm in him . '' `` None at all . I 'm -- I 'm sure there 's none at all . '' `` Yes , '' said the Carrier , with his eyes attracted to her face by the great earnestness of her manner . `` I am glad you feel so certain of it , because it 's a confirmation to me . It 's curious that he should have taken it into his head to ask leave to go on lodging with us ; a n't it ? Things come about so strangely . '' `` So very strangely , '' she rejoined in a low voice , scarcely audible . `` However , he 's a good-natured old gentleman , '' said John , `` and pays as a gentleman , and I think his word is to be relied upon , like a gentleman 's . I had quite a long talk with him this morning : he can hear me better already , he says , as he gets more used to my voice . He told me a great deal about himself , and I told him a good deal about myself , and a rare lot of questions he asked me . I gave him information about my having two beats , you know , in my business ; one day to the right from our house and back again ; another day to the left from our house and back again -LRB- for he 's a stranger , and do n't know the names of places about here -RRB- ; and he seemed quite pleased . ` Why , then I shall be returning home to-night your way , ' he says , ` when I thought you 'd be coming in an exactly opposite direction . That 's capital !
I may trouble you for another lift , perhaps , but I 'll engage not XXXXX fall so sound asleep again . '
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