They ai n't ugly . '' After the delivery of which expressions , he retired again . The whole party would have experienced great difficulty in finding words for their astonishment , even if they had had ample time to seek them . But they had none at all ; for the messenger had scarcely shut the door behind him , when there came another tap , and Tackleton himself walked in . `` Mrs. Peerybingle ! '' said the toy merchant , hat in hand , `` I 'm sorry . I 'm more sorry than I was this morning . I have had time to think of it . John Peerybingle ! I am sour by disposition ; but I ca n't help being sweetened , more or less , by coming face to face with such a man as you . Caleb ! This unconscious little nurse gave me a broken hint last night , of which I have found the thread . I blush to think how easily I might have bound you and your daughter to me , and what a miserable idiot I was when I took her for one ! Friends , one and all , my house is very lonely to-night . I have not so much as a Cricket on my Hearth . I have scared them all away . Be gracious to me : let me join this happy party ! '' He was at home in five minutes . You never saw such a fellow . What had he been doing with himself all his life , never to have known before his great capacity of being jovial ?
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