CHAPTER 3
Mr Riley Gives om
tleman in te cravat and s-frill, taking er so pleasantly ulliver, is Mr Riley: a gentleman ed for an auctioneer and appraiser, but large-ed enougo s deal of bonory acquaintances of able s. Mr Riley spoke of sucances kindly as `people of tion o a pause. Mr tulliver, not a particular reason, ained from a sevental of tort by led by arbitration, and e at all about t of er if everybody made tulliver raditional opinions; but on one or ts rusted to ed intellect and several questionable conclusions, among t, t rats, ed by Old o tell t Manic to-day it triump: ter-po it one ers er, but, big a puzzle as it got tter of Riley. Mr tulliver took er a little stronger t be supposed to iously open in expressing imate of alents.
But t of conversation t could alaken up again at t and exactly in tion; and t, as you kno of Mr Rileys advice. ticular reason for remaining silent for a s space after draugative manner. a man to make an abrupt transition. ten said, and if you drive your ient. spur, one ient in aking copious snuff, and sipping gratuitous brandy and er.
`t i my ulliver at last, in ratone turned eadfastly at his companion.
`Aone of mild interest. ly tances. ty of face and t of taking a pincrebly oracular to Mr tulliver.
`Its a very particlar t on, `its about my boy tom.
At ted on a loool close by t roused Maggie oms name served as ant scerrier suspecting misc all events determined to fly at any one toom.