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When Mr and Mrs Flintwinch panted up to the door of the old house in the

twilight, Jereer started back

'Death of et here?'

Mr Flintwinch, to whoer's

wonder in full He gazed at him with blank astonish to see soazed at the stranger again, speechlessly, at

a loss to knohat he meant; he looked to his wife for explanation;

receiving none, he pounced upon her, and shook her with such heartiness

that he shook her cap off her head, saying between his teeth, with grim

raillery, as he did it, 'Affery, my woman, you must have a dose, my

woain,

mistress What's it about? Who is it? What does it ive you'

Supposing Mistress Affery to have any power of election at the moment,

her choice was decidedly to be choked; for she answered not a syllable

to this adjuration, but, with her bare head wagging violently backwards

and forwards, resigned herself to her punish up her cap with an air of gallantry, interposed

'Per his hand on the shoulder of Jeremiah, who

stopped and released his victim 'Thank you Excuse me Husband and

wife I know, froreeable to see that