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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: "Don vlies' gone!"
"May be," says Mary; "shouldn't hay' left mun out to coort. May be
old hen's ate mun off. I see her chocking about a while agone."
The host receives this intelligence with an oath, and replies by a
violent blow at Mary's head, which she, accustomed to such slight
matters, dodges, and then returns the blow with good effect on the
shock head.
Whereon mine host, equally accustomed to such slight matters,
quietly shambles off, howling as he departs--
"Tell Patrico!"
Mary runs in, combs her hair, slips a pair of stockings and her
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