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That the man had been married fourteen or fifteen years , and had a family growing up , the Vicar did know ; and , knowing it , feared that Mrs. Brattle of Startup , as their farm was called , would not be willing to receive this proposed new inmate . But he would try . He would go on to Startup after having seen Carry at the Three Honest Men , and use what eloquence he could command for the occasion . He drove himself over on the next day to meet an early train , and was in Salisbury by nine o'clock . He had to ask his way to the Three Honest Men , and at last had some difficulty in finding the house . It was a small beershop , in a lane on the very outskirts of the city , and certainly seemed to him , as he looked at it , to be as disreputable a house , in regard to its outward appearance , as ever he had proposed to enter . It was a brick building of two stories , with a door in the middle of it which stood open , and a red curtain hanging across the window on the left-hand side .