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 mortification, been drawn away to Hansen's Meeting House.

Two of the landowners were tall powerful men, as like each other as brothers, which they were not. The third was a little, peevish-looking fat man with a red patchy face and protruding eyes (like poached eggs swimming in fat). From his



broad lower jaw, which stuck out from the upper part of his face like a trough, a grey beard grew, covering an immense double chin which hung out over his neck like a paunch. He walked up and down with his hands behind him near the dining-room door, grunting and looking impatiently at his watch every minute.



The six peasant women, all dressed alike in