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In fact he loved her; not tragically, but to a very creditable extent for his years; that is, next to his sons, Bob and John, though he knew very well of that ploughed-ground appearance near the corners of her once handsome eyes, and that the little depression in her right cheek was not the lingering dimple it was poetically assumed to be, but a result of the abstraction of some worn-out nether millstones within the cheek by Rootle, the Budmouth man, who lived by such practices on the heads of the elderly.
Dropping him at last, Richard tumbled him on to the bed. 'Blubber yourself to sleep, clown, he told him. 'Blessed ass, I have heard you snoring these two hours, snoring and rootling over your jack-knife. Sleep, man. But if you rootle again I flog again: mind you that. Gilles slept long, and was awoken in full light by the sound of King Richard calling for his breakfast.
'And let all the other asses see you lookin' like this! Not much. We'll all come up to Number Five Study and wash off in hot water. Beetle, you aren't damaged. Go along and light the gas-stove. 'There's a tin of cocoa in my study somewhere, Perowne shouted after him. 'Rootle round till you find it, and take it up.
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