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1869, R D Blackmore, chapter XI, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. In Three Volumes">…], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, , →OCLC:'Cousin Tom,' said mother, and trying to get so that Annie and I could not hear her; 'it would be a sad and unkinlike thing for you to despise our dwelling-house. We cannot entertain you, as the lordly inns on the road do; and we have small change of victuals.