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Excerpt from Having and Holding, Vol. 2 of 3: A Story of Country Life
I don't feel sometimes as if I can carry the matter through even now, he exclaimed to Jacinth, the evening after the nomination in Barford. I am quite Certain that nothing will ever make me feel honest and independent again. We laughed at Talbot's agonies on the Cross, when he had to shake hands with the farmers and manure and corn merchants every market day, but they are nothing to what I suffer every time I meet that little scoundrel Bodgers; and the women really are worse. Did you see the procession Mrs. Bodgers got up in my honour? Oh! Jacinth, when I came across that boat on wheels manned by all the riffraff from the harbour, and dragged by the scum Of the town, and noticed Mrs.
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