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Dinner at Primrose Hall was rather an elaborate meal, and was always served promptly at six o'clock. Old Josiah Flint had been very particular about his household appointments and habits, and since his death his daughters had made no changes.
After dinner the ladies always went to the library and read the village newspaper, or dozed over their knitting-work until bedtime.