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h plu?? advance close to his questioner and pluck him by the s1eeve, "I didn't see the young lady you know. ???? ! ???? ! whew! There's the wind again --and rain -- well it is a night!"
? or at all discouraged
?? ??? ?? "Rough weather indeed!" observed the strange man ?????
with something like a shudder.
" You're used to it?" said Joe, catching at anything which seemed
to promise a diversion of the subject.
"Pretty well,"' replied returned the other. "About the young lady - has Mr Haredale a daughter?"
" No, no," said the young fellow fretfully, "he's a single gentleman -- he's -- be quiet, can't you, man? Don't you see this talk is not relished yonder?"
Regardless of this whispered remonstrance, and affecting not to hear it, his tormentor provokingly continued:
"Single men have had daughters before now. Perhaps she may be his daughter, though he is not married."
"What do you mean?" said Joe, adding in an undertone as he approached him again, " You'll come in for it presently, I know you will!"
"I mean no harm" -- returned the traveller boldly, "and have said none that I know of. I ask a few questions -- as any stranger may, and not unnaturally -- about the inmates of a remarkable house in a neighbourhood which is new to me, and you are as