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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

'Pray don't say such things, Enoch,' said Fancy severely, upon which Enoch relapsed into servitude.

'If we are doomed to marry, we marry; if we are doomed to remain single, we do,' replied Dick.

Geoffrey had by this time sat down again, and he now made his lips thin by severely straining them across his gums, and looked out of the fireplace window to the end of the paddock with solemn scrutiny. 'That's not the case with some folk,' he said at length, as if he read the words on a board at the farther end of the paddock.

Fancy looked interested, and Dick said, 'No?'

'There's that wife o' mine. It was her doom not to be nobody's wife at all in the wide universe. But she made up her mind that she would, and did it twice over. Doom? Doom is nothing beside a elderly woman—quite a chiel in her hands.'

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