'Tis a sad thing for ye, Christian. How'st know the women won't hae thee?" "I've asked 'em." "Sure I should never have thought you had the face. Well, and what did the last one say to ye? Nothing that can't be got over, perhaps, after all?" "'Get out of my sight, you slack-twisted, slim-looking maphrotight fool,' was the woman's words to me." "Not encouraging, I own," said Fairway. "'Get out of my sight, you slack-twisted, slim-looking maph-rotight fool,' is rather a hard way of saying No. But even that might be overcome by time and patience, so as to let a few grey hairs show themselves in
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