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As the butcher and Miss Port drove out of town the latter did not talk quite so much as was her wont. She seemed to have something on her mind, and presently she proposed to Mr. Morris that he should take the shunpike for a change.
"That would be a mile and a half out of my way! " he exclaimed. "I can't do it."