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"You have just cohim a little aith my shoulder

"Beastly place," said Drummle "Your part of the country, I think?"

"Yes," I assented "I am told it's very like your Shropshire"

"Not in the least like it," said Drummle

Here Mr Drummle looked at his boots and I looked at mine, and then Mr

Drummle looked at my boots, and I looked at his

"Have you been here long?" I asked, deterh to be tired of it," returned Dru to yawn,

but equally deter?"

"Can't say," answered Mr Druh a tingling in my blood, that if Mr Drummle's

shoulder had claimed another hair's breadth of room, I should have

jerked hied a

similar claim, Mr Drummle would have jerked me into the nearest box He

whistled a little So did I

"Large tract of marshes about here, I believe?" said Drummle

"Yes What of that?" said I

Mr Drummle looked at hed

"Are you amused, Mr Dru out for a ride in the