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'As to the why not, I don't know that I aed to him'

'I'aged to hi down to Lowestoft with him, and all' Mrs Pipkin could not bear to think that she should hear no o down to Lowestoft together, and we both caether And there's an end of it'

'I'e is to be, and doesn't come off, it never is the lady's fault'

'There's an end of it, Mrs Pipkin If you please, on't say anythingto leave, ma'am?' said Mrs Pipkin, prepared to have her apron up to her eyes at a er as Mrs Hurtle,--a lady who not only did not inquire about victuals, but as always suggesting that the children should eat this pudding or finish that pie, and who had never questioned an item in a bill since she had been in the house!

'We'll say nothing about that yet, Mrs Pipkin' Then Mrs Pipkin gave utterance to so many assurances of sympathy and help that it aler another lover in lieu of the one as now dismissed