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  • A burly guy in a plaid shirt and Dickies, Earnhart runs Earnhart Hamps, a 150-sow breeding operation in Albion, Indiana.

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  • Auntie Hamps looked from one to the other, and at the quiet opulence of the breakfast-table, and the spacious solidities of the room.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Auntie Hamps (yes, he now cursed her), and the candid greed of his sister.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Hamps willingly, in her hours of bodily triumph, you had to like her unwillingly.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Hamps showed a sympathetic appreciation of the importance of the question.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Hamps had called and that he was to go and have dinner with her at one o'clock, and that his father consented.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Hamps, after she had dealt with his frightful cold.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Auntie Hamps fixed a chair for herself opposite him, and drummed her black-gloved hands on the white table-cloth.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Hamps, however, though it reduced the miraculous to the ordinary-expected, did not diminish Clara's ingenuous awe of Edwin.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Hamps had often assured him, in a manner extraordinarily exasperating, that she was convinced he had acted conscientiously for the best.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

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