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 We thought, Mr. Trim, it had been more in the middle—said Mrs. Bridget—

That would have undone us for ever—said the Corporal.

—And left my poor mistress undone too—said Bridget.

The Corporal made no reply to the reparture, but by giving Mrs. Bridget a kiss.

Come—come—said Bridget—holding the palm of her left-hand parallel to the plane of the horizon, and sliding the fingers of the other over it, in a way which could not have been done, had there been the least wart or protube-