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Simon Verstage sat outside the door of his house, one hot June evening, smoking his pipe.
By his side sat his wife, the hostess of the Ship. Eighteen years have passed since we saw her last, and in these years she has become more plump, a little more set in features, and mottled in complexion, but hardly otherwise older in appearance.