"Yes, sir."

"She's a rare one, is she not, Jane?"

"Yes, sir."

"A strapper--a real strapper, Jane: big, brown, and buxom; with

hair just such as the ladies of Carthage must have had. Bless me!

there's Dent and Lynn in the stables! Go in by the shrubbery,

through that wicket."

As I went one way, he went another, and I heard him in the yard,

saying cheerfully "Mason got the start of you all this morning; he was gone before

sunrise: I rose at four to see him off."

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