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Fie on't! Oh fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden That's gone to seed: things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. . Frailty thy name is woman! -SHAKESPEARE (_Hamlet_).
It was late at night when Colonel Harcourt dismounted, stiff and tired, in front of the _Cheveral Arms_. He had successfully sought at Bath a pair of friends who were to call upon Sir David on the morrow; but he had, somewhat morosely, declined their proffered hospitality. For some ill-defined reason he had been drawn back to Bindon.