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Mr. Hatchard's conversation for nearly a week had been confined to / fault-finding and grunts, a system of treatment designed to wean Mrs. / Hatchard from her besetting sin of extravagance. On other occasions the / treatment had, for short periods, proved successful, but it was quite / evident that his wife's constitution was becoming inured to this physic / and required a change of treatment. The evidence stared at him from / the mantelpiece in the shape of a pair of huge pink vases, which had / certainly not been there when he left in the morning. He looked at them / and breathed heavily.
"Pretty, ain't they? " said his wife, nodding at them.