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They wished to exercise over him the most intolerable of all tyrannies, the tyranny of love.

.....I even know an archdeacon guite well. He has a great gift of humour; a man wants it when he wears a silk apron.

They were both of them little, dried-up persons, with an earnest manner and no sense of humour, quite excellent in a rather unpleasant way, they resembled one another like peas, but none knew whether the likeness had grown from the propinquity of twenty years, or had been the original attraction.