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"I am _glad_ you said that to him! " cried Ewbert's wife, when he told her of his interview with old Hilbrook. "That will give him something to think about. What did he say?"
Ewbert had been less and less satisfied with his reply to Hilbrook, in which it seemed to him that he had passed from mockery to reproof, with no great credit to himself; and his wife's applause now set the seal to his displeasure with it.