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""She had three houses," he corrected, authoritatively. But Jermyn was not to be contradicted.
"She had a house, I say," he repeated, with dismal obstinacy. "A great, big, ugly, white thing. You could see it from miles away -- sticking up."
"So you could," assented the other readily. "It was old Colchester's notion, though he was always threatening to give her up. He couldn't stand her racket any more, he declared; it was too much of a good thing for him; he would wash his hands of her, if he never got hold of another -- and so on. I daresay he would have chucked her, only -- it may surprise you -- his missus wouldn't hear of it. Funny, eh? But with women, you never know how they will take a thing, and Mrs. Colchester, with her moustaches and(... )".
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