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Canon Alington was sitting opposite his wife, telling her and Mrs. Owen about the outside edge. Ambrose and Perpetua had been reading their books while their elders dined, but at the mention of outside edge they both looked up, keeping their thin little forefingers in the place. Ambrose knew about the outside edge too, and from Davos he had repeatedly written to Perpetua about it.
"Form, form," said Dick; "anyone can do these things, but the difficulty is to do them rightly. I myself have much to learn yet."