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After dinner John went to his room and David and his sister seated themselves on the "verandy. " Mr. Harum lighted a cigar and enjoyed his tobacco for a time in silence, while Mrs. Bixbee perused, with rather perfunctory diligence, the columns of her weekly church paper.
"I seen a sight fer sore eyes this mornin'," quoth David presently.