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" only fault of the house is, that it is semi-detached."

"Oh, Aunt Sarah! you don't mean that you expect me to live in a semi-detached house?"

"Why not, my dear, if it suits you in other respects?

"Why, because I should hate my semi-detachment, or whatever the occupants of the other half of the house may call themselves."

"They call themselves Hopkinson," continued Aunt Sarah, coolly.