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They all concurred in the need for this course, and proceeded to the

antique and lampless back street, in which the red curtain of the Three

Tuns was the only radiant object As soon as they had stumbled down

into the room Melbury ordered them to be served, when theytable, and stretched out their legs

upon the herring-boned sand of the floor Melbury himself, restless as

usual, walked to the door while he waited for theood shaking if she werefolk a twelve-et up at five o'clock to ularly for Melbury, could afford to indulge in strong opinions

"I don't speak so warht for couples to , and

excite the neighbors, and then make fools of 'e for five-and-twenty year"

All his listeners knew that when he alluded to his foot-lathe in these

enigmatic terms, the speaker meant to be i women do anton in these days! Why couldn't she

ha' bode with her father, and been faithful?" Poor Creedle was thinking

of his old e unusual in matrimony," said

Farmer Bawtree "I knowed a ,

as there's no strangers here, that the pair were my own