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neck and crop,' said the tranter after a silent interval of half a minute, not at all by way of explaining the pause and pull, which had been quite understood, but simply as a means of keeping the subject well before the meeting.

Mrs. Penny came to the door at this point in the discussion. Like all good wives, however much she was inclined to play the Tory to her husband's Whiggism, and vice versâ, in times of peace, she coalesced with him heartily enough in time of war.

'It must be owned he's not all there, she replied, in a general way, to the fragments of talk she had heard from indoors. 'Far below poor Mr. Grinham' (the late vicar).

'Ay, there was this to be said for him, that you were quite sure he'd never come mumbudgeting to see ye, just as you were

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