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tentatively, as became one who was not a member of the family.

'Ay, that's a part of the illness. Distance belongs to it, slyness belongs to it, quarest things on earth belongs to it. There, 'tmay as well come early as late s'far as I know. The sooner begun, the sooner over; for come it will.'

'The question I ask is,' said Mr. Spinks, connecting into one thread the two subjects of discourse, as became a man learned in rhetoric, and beating with his hand in a way which signified that the manner rather than the matter of his speech was to be observed, 'how did Mr. Maybold know she could play the organ? You know we had it from her own lips, as far as that goes, that she has never, first or last, breathed such a thing to him; much less that she ever would play.'

In the midst of this puzzle Dick

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