`` I hope nobody a n't gone and been and died if you please ! '' This philanthropic wish Miss Slowboy emphasized with various new raps and kicks at the door , which led to no result whatever . `` Shall I go ? '' said Tackleton . `` It 's curious . '' The Carrier , who had turned his face from the door , signed him to go if he would . So Tackleton went to Tilly Slowboy 's relief ; and he too kicked and knocked ; and he too failed to get the least reply . But he thought of trying the handle of the door ; and , as it opened easily , he peeped in , looked in , went in , and soon came running out again . `` John Peerybingle , '' said Tackleton in his ear , `` I hope there has been nothing -- nothing rash in the night ? '' The Carrier turned upon him quickly . `` Because he 's gone ! '' said Tackleton ; `` and the window 's open . I do n't see any marks -- to be sure , it 's almost on a level with the garden : but I was afraid there might have been some -- some scuffle . Eh ? '' He nearly shut up the expressive eye altogether ; he looked at him so hard . And he gave his eye , and his face , and his whole person , a sharp twist . As if he would have screwed the truth out of him . `` Make yourself easy , '' said the Carrier . `` He went into that room last night , without harm in word or deed from me , and no one has entered it since . He is away of his own free-will .
I 'd go out gladly XXXXX that door , and beg my bread from house to house , for life , if I could so change the past that he had never come .
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