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"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to the vice of lying! " chuckled Sir John, and leaned back rheumatically in his chair and mumbled over the jest.
"Yet it was not all a lie," he confided, as if in perplexity, to the fire; "but what a coil over a youthful greensickness 'twixt a lad and a wench more than forty years syne!