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"Ninety-one years!" I repeated

"As ever was!" returned the Ancient, with another nod "I be the

oldest man in these parts 'cept David Relf, an' 'e died last

year"

"Why then, if he's dead, youhis head,--"ye see it be this

way: David were my brother, an' uncommon proud 'e were o' bein'

the oldest one

it du seee

of a deadwhich, the

Ancient rose, and ent on together, side by side, towards

Sissinghurst village