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"A tramp! " said Mrs. Lilly, with dignified disgust. "However did he get in here?"
"I ain't no tramp, lydies," said the man, twisting a piece of straw in his rabbit mouth. "I've got a 'ouse in town, an' a box in Scotlan', an' a yatsh at Cowes, I 'ave. Blimme me, if I ain't a gent at large, and devoted" -- he bowed and leered -- "to the genteel sect."