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Wessex Tales

CHAPTER IV
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No, Charles, I am not sorry at all for what I said then .-- Yours sincerely, SALLY HALL.' Thus set in train, the transfer of Darton's heart back to its original quarters proceeded by mere lapse of time.

In the following July, Darton went to his friend Japheth to ask him at last to fulfil the bridal office which had been in abeyance since the previous January twelvemonths.
'With all my heart, man o' constancy!' said Dairyman Johns warmly.

'I've lost most of my genteel fair complexion haymaking this hot weather, 'tis true, but I'll do your business as well as them that look better.

There be scents and good hair-oil in the world yet, thank God, and they'll take off the roughest o' my edge.

I'll compliment her.


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