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A Strange Story
Complete

CHAPTER VI
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Not in the least.

You said your uncle Sir Phelim employed a coachmaker named Ashleigh, that Ashleigh was an uncommon name, though Ashley was a common one; you intimated an appalling suspicion that the Mrs.Ashleigh who had come to the Hill was the coach maker's widow.

I relieve your mind,--she is not; she is the widow of Gilbert Ashleigh, of Kirby Hall." "Gilbert Ashleigh," said one of the guests, a bachelor, whose parents had reared him for the Church, but who, like poor Goldsmith, did not think himself good enough for it, a mistake of over-modesty, for he matured into a very harmless creature.

"Gilbert Ashleigh?
I was at Oxford with him,--a gentleman commoner of Christ Church.

Good-looking man, very; sapped--" "Sapped! what's that ?--Oh, studied.


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