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 as unlike the first as she can: so the affair was more than half settled in her mind before Tom mentioned it.

She made a feint however of defending herself, by snatching up a sausage;Tom instantly laid hold of another

But seeing Tom's had more gristle in it

She signed the capitulation—and Tom sealed it; and there was an end of the matter.