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Updated: May 12, 2025

A few of the members doubted the possibility of this. The crimson man, who was a retired maltster of comfortable means, ventru, and short in stature, cleared his throat, blew off his superfluous breath, and proceeded to give the instance before alluded to of such possibility, first apologizing for his heroine's lack of a title, it never having been his good fortune to know many of the nobility.

Thomas Hardy - A Group of Noble Dames