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A due number of old shoes had been thrown at the carriage in which the happy pair departed from the Rectory, and it had turned the corner at the bottom of the village. It could then be seen for two or three hundred yards creeping past a fir coppice, and after this was lost to view.
"John," said Mr. Allaby to his manservant, "shut the gate; " and he went indoors with a sigh of relief which seemed to say: "I have done it, and I am alive. " This was the reaction after a burst of enthusiastic merriment during which the old gentleman had run twenty yards after the carriage to fling a slipper at it -- which he had duly flung.