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A MYSTERY by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON

First Line: THUS A YOUNG WIFE, ALIGHTING FROM THE TRAIN
Last Line: IN MUTE AMAZEMENT AT EACH OTHER STARE.
Subject(s): KISSES; MARRIAGE; MYSTERY; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;

THUS a young wife, alighting from the train,
Rebuk'd her husband in the gentlest strain,
"When we in darkness through a tunnel glide,
You should not kiss me, dearest, though your bride."
"Kiss you! Not I! I kissed you not." The pair
In mute amazement at each other stare.



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