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CHAPTER II--THE YOUNG WIFE
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The hare you caught is very tender; but mind that nobody catches you .-- You've never told me what sort of hands she had.' 'I have never seen 'em.

She never took off her gloves.' 'What did she wear this morning ?' 'A white bonnet and a silver-coloured gownd.

It whewed and whistled so loud when it rubbed against the pews that the lady coloured up more than ever for very shame at the noise, and pulled it in to keep it from touching; but when she pushed into her seat, it whewed more than ever.
Mr.Lodge, he seemed pleased, and his waistcoat stuck out, and his great golden seals hung like a lord's; but she seemed to wish her noisy gownd anywhere but on her.' 'Not she! However, that will do now.' These descriptions of the newly-married couple were continued from time to time by the boy at his mother's request, after any chance encounter he had had with them.

But Rhoda Brook, though she might easily have seen young Mrs.Lodge for herself by walking a couple of miles, would never attempt an excursion towards the quarter where the farmhouse lay.

Neither did she, at the daily milking in the dairyman's yard on Lodge's outlying second farm, ever speak on the subject of the recent marriage.


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