The Vicar of Bullhampton

Chapter 86

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removed from the sentence: Mr. Quickenham was a tall, thin man, with eager gray eyes, and a long projecting nose, on which, his enemies in the courts of law were wont to say, [THAT] his wife would hang a kettle, in order that the unnecessary heat coming from his mouth might not be wasted.