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"Pray let us have it, for all that."
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"Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause."
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"Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of the general public were present, then?"
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"Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is open."
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"This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?"
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"No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a common-looking person.
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