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Sissy had described them as England's premier warts, and it looked
to me as if he might be right, Professor Pringle was a thinnish,
baldish, dyspeptic-lookingish cove, with an eye like a haddock,
while Mrs. Pringle's aspect was that of one who had had bad news
around about the year 1900 and never really got over it.

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