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| "Don't take the money before I return," said Herbert as he stood up by the table. "I fear that it will turn you into a mean, greedy man, and we will have to disown you."
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| His mother laughed, and following him to the door, watched him down the road; and returning to the breakfast table, was very happy at the expense of her husband's credulity. All of which did not prevent her from scurrying to the door at the postman's knock, nor prevent her from referring somewhat shortly to retired sergeant-majors of bibulous habits when she found that the post brought a tailor's bill.
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| His mother laughed, and after she followed him to the door, she watched him walk away on the road. And when she returned to the breakfast table, she was very amused at her husband's credulity. But despite this, she ran to the door when the postman knocked, and she complained about retired alcoholic sergeant-majors when she received a bill from a tailor.
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| "Herbert will have some more of his funny remarks, I expect, when he comes home," she said, as they sat at dinner.
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| When they sat down for dinner, she said, "Herbert will probably have more funny things to say when he comes home."
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| "I dare say," said Mr. White, pouring himself out some beer; "but for all that, the thing moved in my hand; that I'll swear to."
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| Mr. White poured some beer for himself and said, "Probably, but even so, I swear that the thing moved in my hand."
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| "You thought it did," said the old lady soothingly.
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| The old lady calmly said, "You just thought that it did."
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| "I say it did," replied the other. "There was no thought about it; I had just — What's the matter?"
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| The other said, "I knew that it did. I didn't merely think that it did, I just... What's the matter?"
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