After the pretty Greek greeting, "Joy be with you," which she faintly answered, he asked her, as fractiously as though he had spent hours of anxiety, where she had been so long.
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"But he said he did not doubt me," the rector urged rather fractiously.
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"I don't think about her," fractiously returned Henry.
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