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after he had relieved her of several small (but rather valuable) articles that had somehow fallen inside her umbrella. Her face looked as if she was in the throes of thinking out a really crushing parting remark; but all she found to say, turning round on the step, was:‘You’ll live to regret it, young fellow! Why didn’t you golegendary gold (mysteriously obtained, if-gotten), is, as every one knows, any one’s for the finding – unless the search is interrupted.When he had overcome Sancho and pushed him out, Frodo collapsed on a chair in the hall. It’s time to close the shop, Merry,’ he said. ‘Lock the door, and don’t open it to anyone today, not even if they bring a battering ram.’ Then he went to revive himself with a belated cup of tea. too? You don’t belong here; you’re no Baggins - you - you’re a Brandybuck!’‘Did you hear that, Merry? That was an insult, if you like,’ said Frodo as he shut the door on her.‘It was a compliment,’ said Merry Brandybuck, ‘and so, of course, not true.’Then they went round the hole, and evicted three young hobbits (two Boffins and a Bolger) who were knocking holes in the walls of one of the cellars. Frodo also had a tussle with young Sancho Proudfoot (old Odo Proudfoot’s grandson), who had begun an excavation in the larger pantry, where he thought there was an echo. The legend of Bilbo’s gold excited both curiosity and hope; for
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