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CHAPTER IX. MORE DISCOVERIES.
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When Zack entered the room, and saw his strange friend, with legs crossed and hands in pockets, sitting gravely in the usual corner, on the floor, between a brandy-bottle on one side, and a guttering1, unsnuffed candle on the other, he roared with laughter, and stamped about in his usual boisterous2 way, till the flimsy little house seemed to be trembling under him to its very foundations. Mat bore all this noise and ridicule3, and all the jesting that followed it about the futility4 of drowning his passion for Madonna in the brandy-bottle, with the most unruffled and exemplary patience. The self-control which he thus exhibited did not pass without its reward. Zack got tired of making jokes which were received with the serenest5 inattention; and, passing at once from the fanciful to the practical, astonished his fellow-lodger7, by suddenly communicating a very unexpected and very important piece of news.
“By-the-bye, Mat,” he said, “we must sweep the place up, and look as respectable as we can, before to-morrow night. My friend Blyth is coming to spend a quiet evening with us. I stayed behind till all the visitors had gone, on purpose to ask him.”
“Do you mean he’s coming to have a drop of grog and smoke a pipe along with us two?” asked Mat rather amazedly.
“I mean he’s coming here, certainly; but as for grog and pipes, he never touches either. He’s the best and dearest fellow in the world; but I’m ashamed to say he’s spooney enough to like lemonade and tea. Smoking would make him sick directly; and, as for grog, I don’t believe a drop ever passes his lips from one year’s end to another. A weak head—a wretchedly weak head for drinking,” concluded Zack, tapping his forehead with an air of bland9 Bacchanalian10
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