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Have you been listening, Tim? You seem mightily diverted.

I had no occasion to listen; for I contrived business for myself, as it were, and stole quietly into the room, and saw all the company, and the oration-man busy in his vocation: and hard work it is, I'll assure you.

Hard work! it is only words out of his mouth, is it not? A country curate would think nothing on 't.

Only words out of his mouth, say ye? Both legs and arms are at work, like any weaver busy on the treadles: and for making of mouths, and grinning and staring under the curls of that blouzing wig of his, it's impossible for me to gi' you any notion on 't. I would not undertake to supply either lords or ladies wi' such a turbullion