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INTERVIEW WITH THE VICAR.
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under Spinks's arm—crescent-shaped portions of other heads and faces being visible behind these—the whole dozen and odd eyes bristling with eager inquiry.

Mr. Penny, as is the case with excitable bootmakers and men, on seeing the vicar look at him, and hearing no word spoken, thought it incumbent upon himself to say something of any kind. Nothing suggested itself till he had looked for about half a minute at the vicar.

'You'll excuse my naming it, sir,' he said, regarding with much commiseration the mere surface of the vicar's face; 'but perhaps you don't know, sir, that your chin have bust out a-bleeding where you cut yourself a-shaving this morning sir.'

'Now, that was the stooping, depend upon't, Mr. Mayble,' the tranter suggested, also looking with much interest at the vicar's chin. 'Blood always will bust out

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