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About a week after this conversation Hubert dropped the local paper he was reading in the evening with such a sudden exclamation that his mother and sisters looked up in mild astonishment.
"‘Well I'm gormed! ' as Dan Peggotty has it! " he said at length. "Nothing will ever surprise me again as long as there is such a crop of fools in the world-no wonder that rogues like Dealerson flourish! After all I said too! Listen to this! headed ‘Important Sale of Station. -We have much pleasure in noticing that our energetic and popular neighbour, Mr. Dealerson, has completed the sale of his well-known station, Wantabalree, with fifty-four thousand six hundred sheep of a superior character, to Colonel Dacre, a gentleman lately arrived from England. Furniture, stores, station, horses and cattle given in. The price is said to be satisfactory. ' Well, the devil helps some people," said Hubert. "How that poor gentleman could have run into the snare blindfold after the talking to father and I gave him, I can't make out. Mark my words; he's a dead man (financially) unless it's going to rain for years."