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Besides , she had doubtless gone , despite toothache , to the football match with the Mayor , the new club being under the immediate patronage of his Worship . All the potting world had gone to the football match . Mr Cowlishaw would have liked to go , but it would have been madness to quit the surgery on his opening day . So he sat and yawned , and peeped at the crowd crowding to the match at two o'clock , and crowding back in the gloom at four o'clock ; and at a quarter past five he was reading a full description of the carnage and the heroism in the football edition of the _ Signal _ . Though Hanbridge had been defeated , it appeared from the _ Signal _ that Hanbridge was the better team , and that Rannoch , the new Scotch centre-forward , had fought nobly for the town which had bought him so dear . Mr Cowlishaw was just dozing over the _ Signal _ when there happened a ring at his door . He did not precipitate himself upon the door .