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a shock," he went on (the white-haired lady having passed), "when one
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touches the fringe of what has meant a great deal to oneself, touches
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to you. So you stayed there one summer with an aunt?" (That was all Ruth
Anning was going to tell him about her visit to Canterbury.) "And you
saw the sights and went away and never thought of it again."