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The Head of the Family arrived next day. He was a very stolid and bucolic-looking person, a breeder of prize oxen and fat sheep. He commiserated with poor Isobel in a heavy fashion.
"Strange thing going off like that," he commented. "We are a very long-lived family. But your father was always a little bit different from the rest of us when he was a boy."