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` Adder conveyed the information of her husband 's flight to the consolable Amy , ' said Mrs. Lawrence . ` He had to catch the coach for Dover , ' Adderwood explained . ` His wife was at a dinner-party . I saw her at midnight . ' ` Fair Amy was not so very greatly surprised ? ' ` Quite the soldier 's wife ! ' ` She said she was used to these little catastrophes .