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While he made this inventory, Doctor Unonius kept Dapple at a standstill; for thus only was he secure of hearing the smallest sound on the road behind.
The floor was of slate but strewn with rugs, some of rag-work others of badgers' skins. A tall clock ticked sedately in a corner. On one side of the chimney a weather-glass depended, on the other a warming-pan symbols, as it were, of conjugal interests, male and female, drawing together by the hearth. Doctor Unonius felt an unwonted glow at the sight of this interior.
In the press Doctor Unonius whether because he never stinted a vail to the grooms, or because they felt a natural kindness for one who had brought their wives through confinement and ushered their children into the world; and anyway there was sense in standing well with a man who might at any time in this transitory world have to decide the important question of your living or dying managed to get old Dapple harnessed in the gig, and the lamps lit, and to jog off with the earliest.
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