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 "Why! I know that," said Ann. "They was overtook by the Flood"

Kipps meditated for a while. "But I thought they had to take two of everything there was"

"Within reason they 'ad," said Ann

The Kippses left it at that.

The great green-and-gold Labyrinthodon took no notice of their conversation. It gazed with its wonderful eyes over their heads into the infinite—inflexibly calm. It might indeed have been Coote himself there, Coote the unassuming, cutting them dead

And in due course these two simple souls married, and Venus Urania, the Goddess of Wedded Love, who is indeed a very great and noble and kindly goddess, bent down and blessed their union.