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Scenes of Clerical Life

CHAPTER 2
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Maize is a colour that decidedly did _not_ suit his complexion, and it is one that soon soils; why, then, did Mr.Barton select it for domestic wear?
Perhaps because he had a knack of hitting on the wrong thing in garb as well as in grammar.
Mrs.Barton now lighted her candle, and seated herself before her heap of stockings.

She had something disagreeable to tell her husband, but she would not enter on it at once.

'Have you had a nice evening, dear ?' 'Yes, pretty well.

Ely was there to dinner, but went away rather early.
Miss Arabella is setting her cap at him with a vengeance.

But I don't think he's much smitten.


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