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THE LATER LIFE

Her gentle words, which he did not understand, disturbed him greatly; and he went upstairs in a temper, undressed angrily and flung himself on his bed:

"And, upon my word, he'd be upsetting Addie's head next, with those queer notions," he muttered, as he dug his ear viciously into his pillow.