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{His spouse took a brief promenade with him: p66.jpg} His spouse took a brief promenade with him.

To be sure, it was during an absence of the flock on the other side of the hedge so that the moral effect of her spasm of wifely loyalty was quite lost upon them.

I strongly suspect that she would not have granted anything but a secret interview.

What a petty, weak, ignoble character! I really don't like to think so badly of any fellow-creature as I am forced to think of that politic, time-serving, pusillanimous goose.