He seemed to say it by rote , and to wave his hand in the same unconscious manner ; for he stood observing Bertha with an anxious wondering face , that never altered its expression . `` Good-bye , young shaver ! '' said the jolly Carrier , bending down to kiss the child ; which Tilly Slowboy , now intent upon her knife and fork , had deposited asleep -LRB- and , strange to say , without damage -RRB- in a little cot of Bertha 's furnishing ; `` good-bye ! Time will come , I suppose , when you 'll turn out into the cold , my little friend , and leave your old father to enjoy his pipe and his rheumatics in the chimney-corner ; eh ? Where 's Dot ? '' `` I 'm here , John ! '' she said , starting . `` Come , come ! '' returned the Carrier , clapping his sounding hands . `` Where 's the pipe ? '' `` I quite forgot the pipe , John . '' Forgot the pipe ! Was such a wonder ever heard of ? She ! Forgot the pipe ! `` I 'll -- I 'll fill it directly . It 's soon done . '' But it was not so soon done , either . It lay in the usual place -- the Carrier 's dreadnought pocket -- with the little pouch , her own work , from which she was used to fill it ; but her hand shook so , that she entangled it -LRB- and yet her hand was small enough to have come out easily , I am sure -RRB- , and bungled terribly . The filling of the pipe and lighting it , those little offices in which I have commended her discretion , were vilely done from first to last .
During the whole process , Tackleton stood looking on maliciously with the half-closed eye ; which , whenever it met hers -- or caught it , for it can hardly be said XXXXX have ever met another eye : rather being a kind of trap to snatch it up -- augmented her confusion in a most remarkable degree .
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