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Fenton’s Quest

CHAPTER XXXIII
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It might have been better for you if you'd seen more of the rough side.

Being your own missus too soon, and missus of such a place as this, has spoiled you a bit.

I tell you, Nell, there ain't a better house in Hampshire than Wyncomb, though it mayn't suit your fanciful notions.

Do you know the size of Stephen Whitelaw's farm ?" "No, father; I've never thought about it." "What do you say to three hundred acres--over three hundred, nigher to four perhaps ?" "I suppose it's a large farm, father.

But I know nothing about such things." "You suppose it's large, and you know nothing about such things!" cried the bailiff, with an air of supreme irritation.


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