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"There's nothing the matter with the inside of your head at any rate, though the outside looks as if you'd been arguing with the parish bull." "This is a verra fine house," said Maclachlan slowly and slily. "A mere dog-kennel," said the doctor, "considering she's a Parker Putwell."
The Colonel, who had kept silent during the trouble, now plied the doctor with questions about the surrounding country. "It's a poor biding-place for a Parker Putwell," he replied. "If there's a drearier or lonelier stretch in England than the moorlands of Leek, I would not care to see it.
A Maclachlan has spoken it." The doctor went to an inner door and bawled, "Euphemia," and a discontented wisp of a woman answered his call. "Madam and gentlemen, my wife, Mistress Snooks, born a Parker Putwell. Mistress Snooks, like me, will bow to your will with pleasure, nor will you mislike her table, I assure you. Now, my buck, let's see to this crack in your head."
Here, on the right, was the woodward's cottage where the road began to run downhill into a bottom dark with ancient elms: there, on my left, in an open space among the boles, the moon showed up a worn, grey column which marked the spot where, in the wild days of the Roses, a Parker Putwell had slain a Blount in unfair fight for a light of love not worth the blood of a rabbit.
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