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as unlike the first as she can: so the affair was more than half settled in her mind before Tom mentioned it.
She made a feint however of defending herself, by snatching up a sausage;———Tom instantly laid hold of another———
But seeing Tom's had more gristle in it———
She signed the capitulation—and Tom sealed it; and there was an end of the matter.CHAP.