Hardingham

These rooms in the Hardingham were a string of apartments along one handsome thick-carpeted corridor.

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"Mrs. Honeydew -- Martha," said Hardingham in a low querulous tone, "I fancy I'm going to have a fit of the gout, or a bilious fever."

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"Martha Honeydew," cried Hardingham with a smile, the first he had sported that week, "I am, as you know, a man of but few words, and straight-forward in my dealings; say that you can fancy me, and I'll marry you tomorrow."

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Hardingham settled all his property upon his wife, and a pretty life the amiable creature led him.

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It came to me suddenly one afternoon just how detached she was, as I saw her going towards the Hardingham, sitting up, as she always did, rather stiffly in her electric brougham, regarding the glittering world with interested and ironically innocent blue eyes from under the brim of a hat that defied comment.

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Hardingham gave out, I repeat, were nothing to the things that came in.

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I caught an early train and went up to the Hardingham.

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I went up to the Hardingham through a dense London fog to see how things really stood.

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There comes back, too, among these Hardingham memories, an impression of a drizzling November day, and how we looked out of the windows upon a procession of the London unemployed.

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