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Then I remembered that Hardy had written a story-before Tess-called ' 'The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid ; I wondered if I could throw in that title, to confuse them. There was a general misunderstanding about the so-called deserters; the deserters I knew were politically mild. Hester would usher in the New Year more emphatically than Owen or I could manage; she greeted the New I can't understand him, she told her husband, the driver.

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