"Tell me, please, some of the characters he took off."
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"I can remember two especially. One of them was a drunkard, and the other was a hypocrite. In taking off the drunkard he called himself `Mr Adolphus Swillerly.' You never heard anything more amusing in your life."
The profoundest silence reigned while Amos uttered these words. At first his voice had trembled, but it immediately became perfectly firm, and a quiet peace rested on his sweet face as he finished. A sudden chill seemed to have fallen on most of the party. Some shrugged their shoulders, some smiled, others looked annoyed. Mrs Morse and her daughter exchanged looks of bewilderment behind Amos's back. Walter, with feelings of mingled shame and vexation,
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"Surely you don't see any harm in a little fun like that?" asked the young lady in some dismay,
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