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"True," said Bawtree, emphatically "And for o to this one directly I've anything the

ave me had no taste in

it at all"

Mr Melbury, as became a well-infor moreover preoccupied with the business appointment

which had co on the

floor--his usual custom when undecided That stiffness about the arm,

hip, and knee-joint which was apparent when he walked was the net

product of the divers sprains and over-exertions that had been required

of hi man, for he was of the

sort called self-in of

every one of these cra a pollard, unassisted, fro was caused by the crash of an el; that in the other was fro hiious muscular efforts, he had

risen from his bed fresh as usual; his lassitude had departed,

apparently forever; and confident in the recuperative power of his

youth, he had repeated the strains anew But treacherous Tiuarded against, for greater

accu years the store had

been unfolded in the form of rheumatisnized some act which, had its consequence