It was half-past four o‟clock (by the testimony of the land-surveyor, my authority for the partic-ulars of this story, a gentleman with the faintest curve of humour on his lips); it was half-past four o‟clock on a May morning in the eighteen for-ties. A dense white fog hung over the Valley of the Exe, ending against the hills on either side.
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