Everything was repacked and rebound with triple ropes, and the Sahib was provided with an extra cushion; but he had reached a sort of dreamsome Nirvana, having several times bitten his tongue through, cut his boot against the wheel-edge, and twisted his legs into a true-lovers'-knot.

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'I agree that it's rather afternoonified,' Ruby said, apparently giving it her approval, despite there being no separate parlour.

There was thistle-spudding all over the Marsh; an army of thistles, an army of spudders.