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wrong with that fahter?' 'Yes, sir, I HAVE heard it: it wouldn't be Great Oakhurst if I

hadn't, but p'r'aps, sir, you've never been upstairs in that house,

and yet a house it isn't There's just two sleeping-rooal, she goes away

to service Maybe, sir, them premises at the farm are also unbeknown

to you In the back kitchen there's a broadish sort of shelf as Jim

clihts, and it has a rail round it to keep you fro out, and there's a ladder as they draws up in the day as goes

straight up froht disgraceful, and I don't believe the Lord A'hty would be

marciful to neither of US if as tried like that'

Mrs Caffyn bethought herself of the 'us' and was afraid that even she

had gone a little too far; 'leastways, speaking for myself, sir,' she

added

The rector turned rather red, and repented his attereat, Mrs Caffyn, that is all the more

reason why those who are liable to them should seek the means which

are provided in order that they may be overcome I believe the

Polesdens are very lax attendants at church, and I don't think they

ever communicated'

Mrs Polesden at that moment cah it, the rector departed with a stiff 'good-

,' made to do duty for both women