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FARTHER ALONG THE ROAD.
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suppose he'll turn over your music, for the organ will be close to his pew. But—I know you have never encouraged him?'

'Never once!' said Fancy emphatically, and with eyes full of earnest truth. 'I don't like him indeed, and I never heard of his doing this before! I have always felt that I should like to play in a church, but I never wished to turn you and your choir out; and I never even said that I could play till I was asked. You don't think for a moment that I did, surely, do you?'

'I know you didn't, Fancy.'

'Or that I care the least morsel of a bit for him?'

'I know you don't.'

The distance between Budmouth and Mellstock was eighteen miles, and there being a good inn six miles out of Budmouth, Dick's custom in driving thither was to divide his journey into three stages

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