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Prisoners

CHAPTER XXVI
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The eye of an Archbishop misses nothing.

With an ejaculation of profound relief he beckons to a distant figure which appears in a doorway.

The Archdeacon in his evening gaiters rushes in.

Aunt Aggie gives way! After this final feat of the imagination Aunt Aggie generally felt so worn out by emotion that food was absolutely necessary to her.
On this occasion she sat down quivering on a heap of stones by the roadside, and drew forth a biscuit which she had secreted at luncheon at the Vicarage an hour before.

It must be owned that she was fond of food, though not in the same way that most of us are addicted to it.


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