THE STRING OF PEARLS page 673

"Oh, go to the deuce," said Todd.
"What did you remark, my dear sir?"
"Go along—go along—Eugh!—eugh! Oh, dear, how bad my cough is. I dreamt that no end of people were talking and talking away in the next room; but that can't be, as I have paid for it. Oh, dear!—oh!"

TODD COMPELS BILL WHITE TO ASSIST HIS ESCAPE FROM THE THAMES POLICE.{Figure}

Mrs. Hardman took her cue from this; and she was at once resolved to pass off the disturbance in the next room as merely a dream of her new lodger.
"Dear me, sir," she said in the blandest possible accents; "have you indeed had a dream? What a singular thing!"
"Eugh! Is it? I don't think so."
"Well, sir, when I say singular, of course I mean that it's very natural, I