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Gradually the facts came to light, though not fully for a long time afterward.
The Good Woman was one of those inns pleasantly known to our great-grandfathers. The old London road had run by its steps; and the wheels of old stagecoaches, post-chaises, and wagons, had dustied its windows once. But, unluckily for The Good Woman, she stood upon the apex of a curve of that great channel of traffic which modern reform and a county presentment cut off; and the London road, henceforward running in a straight line from Dwiddleston to Huxbridge -- fifteen miles -- leaves The Good Woman full three miles on one side.