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The House by the Church-Yard

CHAPTER LXXV
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Do you mean it ?' 'Why, thus I mean it.

He _thinks_ he sees him; but, if he does, upon my honour, he sees a ghost,' and Dangerfield chuckled merrily.
'Pray, Mr.Dangerfield, consider me, and be serious, and in Heaven's name explain,' said Mervyn, speaking evidently in suppressed anguish.
'Why, you know--don't you?
the poor fellow's not quite right here,' and he tapped the centre of his own towering forehead with the delicate tip of his white middle finger.

'I've seen a little of him; he's an angler, so am I; and he showed me the fishing of the river, here, last summer, and often amused me prodigiously.

He's got some such very odd maggots! I don't say, mind ye, he's _mad_, there are many degrees, and he's quite a competent parish clerk.

He's only wrong on a point or two, and one of them is Charles Archer.


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