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all about here be what they call High. All his sons, except
our Mr Clare, be made pa’sons too.’
Tess had not at this hour the curiosity to ask why the
present Mr Clare was not made a parson like his brethren,
and gradually fell asleep again, the words of her informant
coming to her along with the smell of the cheeses in the ad-
joining cheeseloft, and the measured dripping of the whey
from the wrings downstairs.

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