...besides deriving various other advantages from his propinquity. Crab, moreover, had a sort of charier, as a humorist subject to strange fits of absence,...who imagined that he was talking to himself and by Jiimself, were it not manifest to a keen observer that he never gave them utterance unless when he...

...thoughts; nor was it easy to believe that there was any raillery, badinage, or intentional oftence in his effusions, however caustic ; for his countenance...by some display of arrogance, folly, or pretension. Some farther gasconades of the incorrigible Captain having drawn down upon him a renewal of oblique...

...taken offence at these splenetic and pointed sallies, but he was not a man to quarrel with a neighbor from whom he occasionally borrowed money, besides...by some display of arrogance, folly, or pretension. Some farther gasconades of the incorrigible Captain having drawn down upon him a renewal of oblique...