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wish her to just yet; for your playing is very good. But as I said, one of the churchwardens has been so anxious for a change, that as matters stand, I couldn't consistently refuse my consent.'

Now for some reason or other, the vicar at this point seemed to have an idea that he had prevaricated; and as an honest vicar, it was a thing he determined not to do. He corrected himself, blushing as he did so, though why he should blush was not known to Reuben.

'Understand me rightly,' he said: 'the churchwarden proposed it to me, but I had thought myself of getting—Miss Day to play.'

'Which churchwarden might that be who proposed her, sir?—excusing my common way.' The tranter intimated by his tone, that so far from being inquisitive he did not even wish to ask a single question.

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