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Wessex Tales

CHAPTER I
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I have had experience enough in looking above me.
"No more superior women for me," said I--you know when.

Sally is a comely, independent, simple character, with no make-up about her, who'll think me as much a superior to her as I used to think--you know who I mean--was to me.' 'Ay,' said Johns.

'However, I shouldn't call Sally Hall simple.

Primary, because no Sally is; secondary, because if some could be, this one wouldn't.

'Tis a wrong denomination to apply to a woman, Charles, and affects me, as your best man, like cold water.


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