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"I'm afraid, too, that it was a failure there!"

"If so, 'twere dooht as well

have come upon anybody else's plate as hers"

"What snail?"

"Well, e of her plate when

I brought it out; and so it reen"

"How the deuce did a snail get there?"

"That I don't know no entleman was"

"But, Robert, of all places, that here he shouldn't have been!"

"Well, 'twas his native home, come to that; and where else could we

expect him to be? I don't care who the man is, snails and caterpillars

alill lurk in close to the stu

way"

"He wasn't alive, I suppose?" said Giles, with a shudder on Grace's