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"Smokes, does he? The abominable wretch! " exclaimed Mrs. Volant to her friend, Mrs. Washburn, a young wife who had just gone to housekeeping.
"He smokes, but he is not an abominable wretch -- I am sure he is not," replied Mrs. Washburn, a little startled by the hard name applied to her husband, whom she both loved and esteemed.