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THE KNOT THERE'S NO UNTYING.
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colours and committed myself then!' said Fancy.

''Tis a pity I can't marry the whole five of ye!' said Dick, surveying them all round.

'Heh-heh-heh!' laughed the four bridesmaids, and Fancy privately touched Dick and smoothed him down behind his shoulder, as if to assure herself that he was there in flesh and blood as her own property.

'Well, whoever would have thought such a thing?' said Dick, taking off his hat, sinking into a chair, and turning to the elder members of the company.

The elder members of the company arranged their eyes and lips to signify that in their opinion nobody could have thought such a thing, whatever it was.

'That my bees should have swarmed just then, of all times and seasons!' continued Dick, throwing a comprehensive glance like a net over the whole auditory.

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