He was not 'illegal,' as you ignorantly put it, Sireno. He was a truebred Church, but a wild young wastrel.

Barbara thought, Oh Dick, Dick—then burst into helpless, uncontrollable laughter, laughed as she had not laughed for an eternity of time, laughed uproariously with an entirely unladylike and un-auntly abandon, laughed so that she had to hold on to the sides of her chair.

But far the greater number of the inhabitants lead a sober life, only breaking out into occasional excess on “mafficks” of authorised national rejoicing, on the days of public holiday, or on the last night of the year, and other periods of unusual solemnity.

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