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As Colonel Quaritch was contemplating these various views and reflecting that on the whole he had done well to come and live at Honham Cottage, he was suddenly startled by a loud voice saluting him from about twenty yards distance with such peculiar vigour that he fairly jumped.
"Colonel Quaritch, I believe," said, or rather shouted, the voice from somewhere down the drive.