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"Beastly awkward," said I, as meditatively; "I'd give a great deal to know how I'm going to get my hat back without breaking through the blessed hedge, and rousing the house, and being taken for a burglar, may be -- "
"It is terrible," assented a quite tranquil voice; "but if gentlemen will venture abroad on such terrible nights -- "