`` He 's going , John , I think ! '' Not at all . He was only going to speak . `` If you please , I was to be left till called for , '' said the Stranger mildly . `` Do n't mind me . '' With that he took a pair of spectacles from one of his large pockets , and a book from another , and leisurely began to read . Making no more of Boxer than if he had been a house lamb ! The Carrier and his wife exchanged a look of perplexity . The Stranger raised his head ; and , glancing from the latter to the former , said : `` Your daughter , my good friend ? '' `` Wife , '' returned John . `` Niece ? '' said the Stranger . `` Wife ! '' roared John . `` Indeed ? '' observed the Stranger . `` Surely ? Very young ! '' He quietly turned over , and resumed his reading . But , before he could have read two lines , he again interrupted himself to say : `` Baby yours ? ''
John gave him a gigantic nod : equivalent XXXXX an answer in the affirmative , delivered through a speaking trumpet .
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