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But down by the river they were, consorting and God knows what else." "At his age, too! Disgusting, I call it." "Oh, _she's_ not particular! My comfort is I always suspected that woman from the first moment I set eyes on her.

Instinct, I s'pose.
'Well, my lady,' says I, 'if you're any better than you should be, then I've lived all these years for nothing.'" "And him--that looked such a broken-down old innocent!" "They get taken that way sometimes, late in life." Nurse Turner sank her voice and said something salacious, which caused Mrs.Royle to draw a long breath and exclaim that she could never have credited such things--not in a Christian land.

Her old husband, too, overheard it, and took snuff with a senile chuckle.
"Gad, that's spicy!" he crooned.
The Master, at the gateway leading to the home-park, turned for a look back on the quadrangle and the seated figures.

Yes, they made an exquisite picture.