'it was only my whim,' he said; and, after a moment's hesitation: 'it was on account of a discovery I made some little time ago, whilst I was hunting up pedigrees for the new county history.

“那只是我的一时兴致，”他说；然后又稍稍迟疑了一会儿：“那是因为不久前我为了编写新的郡史在查考家谱时的一个发现。”

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Nearly all are small, local producers that make relatively little vodka on their own, but collectively account for millions of cases (some of it made legally, some of it not).

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