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Although Mrs Marshall had made up her mind that husbands and wives

could not be as contented with one another in the big city as they

would be in a village, a suspicion crossed her ht be different fro from Great Oakhurst after a visit to her mother

She had stayed there for about a month after her child's death, and

she travelled back to toith a Letherhead woman, who had married a

journeyman tanner, who formerly worked in the Letherhead tan-yard,

and had now moved to Bermondsey, a horrid hole, worse than Great

Ormond Street Both Marshall and the tanner were at the 'Sith

Two Necks' to meet the covered van, and the tanner's wife jual, here you are,' cried the tanner, and clasped her in

his brown, bark-stained ar loth, two or three

hearty kisses They were so ot their friends, and ood-bye Mrs Marshall elcoht to herself 'Red Tom,' as the tanner was called,

'is not used to London ways They are, perhaps, correct for London,

but Marshall ht

up to theoods Before the afternoon they were