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vague idea, not unmixed with nervous apprehensions of 

 the consequences of a slip, that what one could do two 

 could, was vastly exciting and amusing, and, in a word, 

 decidedly jolly. So with many facts, some new ideas, 

 and a fine stock of health from a week of open air, I 

 bade farewell to my hospitable hosts and to romantic 

 Exmoor. 



