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However, what it was I can tell you in a few words, though no doubt you, as a man of the world, will smile at the thinness of my skin when you hear it . . . I came up to town at one-and-twenty, from Toneborough, in Outer Wessex, where I was born, and where, before I left, I had won the heart of a young woman of my own age. I promised her marriage, took advantage of my promise, and am a bachelor.
'Two months ago I formed one of the band at the Yeomanry Ball given by Lord Toneborough in the next county. I saw that young lady dancing the polka there in robes of gauze and lace. Now I see her carry a cheese! 'Never! said Jim incredulously. 'But I do not mistake. I say it is so!
Thousands of men would have forgotten all about it; so would you, perhaps, if you had married and had a family. Did she ever marry? 'I don't think so. O no she never did. She left Toneborough, and later on appeared under another name at Exonbury, in the next county, where she was not known.
'I have married her, Uncle Quantock, as I said, answered James coolly. 'The deed is done, and can't be undone by talking here. 'Where were you married? 'At St. Mary's, Toneborough. 'When? 'On the 29th of September, during the time she was visiting there. 'Who married you? 'I don't know. One of the curates we were quite strangers to the place.
I was driving yesterday to Toneborough where I am erecting a town-hall, and passing through a village on my way I saw the workmen pulling down a chancel-wall in which they found imbedded a unique specimen of Perpendicular work a capital from some old arcade the mouldings wonderfully undercut. They were smashing it up as filling-in for the new wall.
'I'll make a sketch of the only one who had no business there, and show it to you, he presently said. 'I should like this cleared up. Mr. Cunningham Haze said he was going to Toneborough that afternoon, but would return in the evening before Somerset's departure. With this they parted.
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