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PAULA'S VISITORS.
The incident of the ‘rape of the peaches,' though considered an excellent joke at the vicarage, was looked upon in a totally different light by the inhabitants of Wavertree Cottage. Mrs Rushton returned home, fuming over the insult she declared she had received, to relate the story to her son Edward Snaley, who was idling the evening away by lolling over the window sill in his shirt sleeves, and smoking a black briar-root pipe. As the widow finished her abuse of her stepson's behaviour, he withdrew from the window and took a seat by the table, leaning his elbows upon it.