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Her husband sat at a table in one corner of the spotless kitchen, eating a belated lunch. He was a tall man, and stooped so that his sunburned beard almost touched the plate. "Mr. Turnbull was here," said Mrs. Randall, with an air of introducing a subject rather than of giving information. The man held a knife-load of smear-case in front of his mouth, and grunted.
"I don't think I ever enjoyed a glass of wine so much, or," turning to Aunt Polly, "ever enjoyed a dinner so much," which statement completely mollified her feelings, which had been the least bit in the world "set edgeways." "Mebbe your app'tite's got somethin' to do with it," said David, shoveling a knife-load of good things into his mouth.
The hounds shared the boy's curiosity, and stood beside the table waving their scroll-like tails, and watching with expectant eagerness the unerring precision with which the stranger conveyed a knife-load of "frijoles" from his plate to his mouth.
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