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"Why are you so glum this morning, Jack? Hang it, you look as if you were going to attend my funeral instead of my wedding."
"Do I? " asked Egerton, yawning, and stretching himself out lazily in his chair. "I didn't know my facial expression was not in keeping with the joyousness of the occasion."