Good Gracious!'
'By the bye --' observed the Carrier. 'That old
gentleman,' --
Again so visibly, and instantly embarrassed!
'He's an odd fish,' said the Carrier, looking straight
along the road before them. 'I can't make him out.
I don't believe there's any harm in him.'
'None at all. I'm -- I'm sure there's none at all.'
'Yes,' said the Carrier, with his eyes attracted to
her face by the great earnestness of her manner. 'I
am glad you feel so certain of it, because it's a con-
firmation to me. It's curious that he should have
taken it into his head to ask leave to go on lodging
with us; an't it? Things come about so strangely.'
'So very strangely,' she rejoined in a low voice,
scarcely audible.
'However, he's a good-natured old gentleman,'
said John, 'and pays as a gentleman, and I think his
word is to be relied upon, like a gentleman's. I had
quite a long talk with him this morning: he can hear
me better already, he says, as he gets more used to
my voice. He told me a great deal about himself,
and I told him a good deal about myself, and a rare
lot of questions he asked me.
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