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In the meantime, Nancy's wrath generally evaporated with the smoke of the pipe a circumstance which Ned well knew; for after she had sucked it until it emitted a shrill, bubbling sound, like that from a reed, her brows, which wore at other times an habitual frown, would gradually relax into a more benevolent expression the parenthetical curves on each side of her mouth, formed by the irascible pursing of her lips, would become less marked the dog or cat, or whatever else came in her way, instead of being kicked aside, or pursued in an underfit of digressional peevishness, would be put out of her path with gentler force so that it was, in such circumstances, a matter of little difficulty to perceive that conciliation would soon be the order of the day.
Direck was now familiar, a very extensive system of distresses arising out of the latest, the eighth of these digressional adventures.... Mr. Britling had got into it very much as he had got into the ditch on the morning before his smash. He hadn't thought the affair out and he hadn't looked carefully enough. And it kept on developing in just the ways he would rather that it didn't.
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