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natures at times, and when they had wrapped themselves up over head and cars in the sail-cloth again, they plunged back into the now thick night. Tess was so susceptible that the few minutes of contact with the whirl of material progress lingered in her thought.

‘Londoners will drink it at their breakfasts to-morrow, won’t they?’ she asked. ‘Strange people that we have never seen.’

‘Yes—I suppose they will. Though not as we send it. When its strength has been lowered, so that it may not get up into their heads.’

‘Noble men and noble women, ambassadors and centurions, ladies and tradeswomen, and babies who have never seen a cow.’

‘Well, yes; perhaps; particularly centurions.’

‘Who don’t know anything of us, and where it comes from; or think how we two drove miles across the moor to-night in the rain that it might reach ’em in time?’

‘We did not drive entirely on account of these precious Londoners; we drove a little on our own—on account of that anxious matter which you will. I am sure, set at rest, dear Tess. Now, permit me to put it in this way. You belong to