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It was about the middle of this third period, during a mushroom-trapping ramble, that the idea occurred to us, first to me, then after reflection to James, that mother ought to be informed how matters stood between us. We went into the house, hand-in-hand, and interviewed her. She was in the bow-window, reading a translation of The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus.
"Wife and children!" he cried suddenly, "wife and children!" Then, with a wave of his left hand from the claret to the still lawn below us and the lilacs, "These are my wife and children!" It was whispered at length that his commentary on the first book of the Deipnosophists was all but ready.
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