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A Tale of a Lonely Parish

CHAPTER III
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It was in the _Standard_, so there is no doubt about it.
I only hope no one else reads the papers here." "They read them in the kitchen," added Mrs.Ambrose presently, "and they probably take a paper at the Duke's Head.

Mr.Boosey is rather a literary character." "Nobody will suppose it was that Goddard, my dear," said the vicar in a reassuring tone of voice.
"No--you had better write about the cottage." "I will," said the vicar; and he forthwith did.

And moreover, with his usual willingness to give himself trouble for other people, he took a vast deal of pains to see that the cottage was really habitable.

It turned out to be in very good condition.

It was a pretty place enough, standing ten yards back from the road, beyond the village, just opposite the gates of the park; a little square house of red brick with a high pointed roof and a little garden.


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