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Mrs. Fazackerly, whom we all call Nancy, lived with a very old father at Loman Cottage, just on the outskirts of Cross Loman.
No one, in speaking of her behind her back to anybody unaware of her history, is ever strong-minded enough to refrain from adding, "Her husband threw plates at her head. " The first time that this was said to Bill Patch, I remember, he inquired with interest if the late Mr. Fazackerly had been a juggler. It was explained to him then that the late Mr. Fazackerly had only been of a violent temper.