Page:Far from the Madding Crowd Vol 2.djvu/171

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from, at any rate, immediate anguish, he looked again, as he had looked before, at the chalk writing upon the coffin-lid. The scrawl was this simple one, "Fanny Robin and child." Gabriel took his handkerchief and carefully rubbed out the two latter words. He then left the room, and went out quietly by the front door.