text:  Squire Bull as may be imagined was not a little astonished and mortified at hearing from the usher who returned looking foolish and chop-fallen of this outbreak on the part of Jack for whom he had really begun to conceive a sort of sneaking kindness; but knowing of old his fantastical and melancholic turn he attributed this sally rather to the state of his bowels which at all times he exceedingly neglected and which being puffed up with flatulency and indigestion to an extraordinary degree not unfrequently acted upon his brain--generating therein strange conceits and dangerous hallucinations--than to any settled intention on Jack's part to pick a quarrel with him or evade performance of the conditions of their indenture so long as he was not under the influence of hypochondria