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"I suppose they do," said practical Jose, who never liked to be carried back. "They look beautifully light and feathery, I must say." "Have one each, my dears," said cook in her comfortable voice. "Yer ma won't know." Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream. "Let's go into the garden, out by the back way," suggested Laura. "I want to see how the men are getting on with the marquee. They're such awfully nice men." But the back door was blocked by cook, Sadie, Godber's man and Hans. Something had happened.
"Tuk-tuk-tuk," clucked cook like an agitated hen. Sadie had her hand clapped to her cheek as though she had toothache. Hans's face was screwed up in the effort to understand. Only Godber's man seemed to be enjoying himself; it was his story. "What's the matter? What's happened?" "There's been a horrible accident," said Cook. "A man killed." "A man killed! Where? How? When?" But Godber's man wasn't going to have his story snatched from under his very nose. "Know those little cottages just below here, miss?" Know them? Of course, she knew them. "Well, there's a young chap living there, name of Scott, a carter. His horse shied at a traction-engine, corner of Hawke Street this morning, and he was thrown out on the back of his head. Killed."
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up in the middle of the night you m
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arms stretched out. It was the big
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mingled with the sharp smell of the
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him! "Glorious morning!" sang the v
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He floated, gently moving his hands
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"Thanks!" Stanley took a sip. "Hall
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paused, her hand on the loaf of bre
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"But I put it here." Stanley began
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she ran and called "He's gone!" Lin
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over. But which leg? She never coul
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where to go and to have a good star
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On the other side of the beach, clo
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Pip took something out of his pocke
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was satisfied they were safely in.
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"Oh my dear!" Mrs. Harry Kember's v
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Men couldn't stand him, they couldn
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shan't be shocked like those other
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Chapter 1.VI. In a steamer chair, u
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Was there no escape? ... Now she sa
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e cured of the habit of catching on
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"Don't like babies?" The boy couldn
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looked at low tide like shaggy beas
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arms and legs bare, lay on one of t
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y the side of a big black hole. "Do
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"You're not to die." Kezia was very
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the gate. It was Alice, the servant
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hillock just off the road. It had t
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so loudly that it was useless to tr
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Page 61 and 62: A strange company assembled in the
Page 63 and 64: "What'll I be?" Lottie asked everyb
Page 65 and 66: Lottie revived at that. But now she
Page 67 and 68: called the King of Spain. She had h
Page 69 and 70: spider was to fall from the ceiling
Page 71 and 72: again, with her little air of remot
Page 73 and 74: "Would ye have me laugh, my fair si
Page 75 and 76: can see is that I put myself in jai
Page 77 and 78: No guiding principle, let us call i
Page 79 and 80: first time, not resolute, not galla
Page 81 and 82: for?" "Good God! You can't have for
Page 83 and 84: is it so exciting to be awake when
Page 85 and 86: But when Beryl looked at the bush,
Page 87 and 88: over people. Yes, that is fascinati
Page 89 and 90: "Oh," said the voice lightly, and a
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Page 93 and 94: 2. THE GARDEN PARTY. And after all
Page 95 and 96: Four men in their shirt-sleeves sto
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Page 99 and 100: for her part, she didn't feel them.
Page 101 and 102: "Mother says you're to wear that sw
Page 103 and 104: "It's some mistake," she said faint
Page 105 and 106: Hans--" Jose loved giving orders to
Page 107 and 108: "Now, Laura," said her mother quick
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Page 113 and 114: absurd. Of course we can't do anyth
Page 115 and 116: "Drunk! Who said he was drunk?" Lau
Page 117 and 118: "Mother, isn't it terribly heartles
Page 119 and 120: conductor in the middle on a leaf."
Page 121 and 122: "Never a more delightful garden-par
Page 123 and 124: greatest treat for the children. Do
Page 125 and 126: smell of crushed grass were somehow
Page 127 and 128: Laura said, "Are you Mrs. Scott?" B
Page 129 and 130: the bed. "Don't be afraid, my lass,
Page 131 and 132: Laura shook her head. She was. Laur
Page 133 and 134: She paused. "I thought then how ver
Page 135 and 136: slippers, creeping off to the bathr
Page 137 and 138: do? "I can't think how they manage
Page 139 and 140: "One never knows," said Josephine s
Page 141 and 142: And proud young Kate, the enchanted
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Page 147 and 148: "A good one that will last," though
Page 149 and 150: And Constantia, pale as a lemon in
Page 151 and 152: "You--you go first," she gasped, pu
Page 153 and 154: trying to get free. That was too mu
Page 155 and 156: "No, don't, Jug," whispered Constan
Page 157 and 158: ack in the dining-room. They sat do
Page 159 and 160: Both paused to watch a black man in
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Josephine made no reply. She had fl
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poised over the chocolate-roll. "It
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Cyril put down his teacup. "Wait a
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"Come on," said Grandfather Pinner.
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"Do, dear," she smiled. "It will pl
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through the door in her usual fashi
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stranger. "Now the question is," sa
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"But I've always heard," said Const
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was as far off from a proof as ever
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"A week since father died, A week s
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until they had left school, and the
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her do it. The horrible dancing fig
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"Oh, Jug!" A pause. Then Constantia
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oth hands, pulled out the flaps of
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And just for the moment he was with
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"You are not going out, Reginald?"
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grasped the bell, given it a pull,
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"Good heavens, Anne," cried Reggie,
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eautiful she looked like that!--sim
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other followed, solemnly bowing and
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quickly. "How could there be? And I
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Dove." That did it. That seemed to
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"How can you talk of cutting off no
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5. THE YOUNG GIRL. In her blue dres
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"He's a ripping chap, isn't he? I w
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words." She looked her mother up an
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little brother, who was only twelve
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efore them and pushed across my cle
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"You utter little beast!" said she.
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Hennie said: "Ripping!" He meant to
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We tore through the black-and-gold
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6. LIFE OF MA PARKER. When the lite
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ubbed her knees... "Gran! Gran!" He
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"You simply dirty everything you've
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was never allowed out. She never we
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ack. "Now, if we were to cut him op
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And then the egg-cup of ink would c
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to make the bed, smoothing, tucking
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flat like a person in a dream. She
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Ma Parker stood, looking up and dow
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and chosen them something in five m
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lapping up a slice, for some reason
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examined... " William hung on to th
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frightfully keen on--on everything,
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wife, selfish man. She's like an ex
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"Oh!" said William. It was all he c
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her hand through his arm. "They'd b
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ends. William sat down in one of th
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"No," said Isabel, "nobody's going
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It was not until William was waitin
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"Do you think there will be Mondays
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dear!" What was she to do? Isabel f
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in her hand. She was laughing no lo
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the stairs.
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them. As well as her luggage strapp
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"That's right." He sounded stern, b
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shrilled. Silently the dark wharf b
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she thought the stars rocked too. A
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often you give yourself a cabin." "
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"I shall put on the woollen fascina
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kind of blue jelly. How hard it was
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dream before she woke up again to s
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silvery withered trees that are lik
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they were fallen, but their sweet s
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Fenella so merrily she almost thoug
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Little rogue! Yes, she really felt
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needed them; but that it was no goo
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hurried by. A beautiful woman came
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een drugged, that Miss Brill discov
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ose or fell, something so beautiful
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on the bed. She unclasped the neckl
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new and exciting... Meg's tuberoses
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dressing-table and mirror at the fa
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and one shoe on and begged her moth
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seemed to give him so much trouble
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He steered so beautifully. That was
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you at the Neaves' on Tuesday?" And
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"I think it's marvellous to be stil
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mustn't take me seriously, little l
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11. THE SINGING LESSON. With despai
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stool. When she saw Miss Meadows sh
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her greeting, but said in a voice o
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Ah, too Fast." With the gloom of th
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Again the two light taps; she lifte
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"Oh, if you please, Miss Meadows,"
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"Oh, just one minute, Miss Meadows,
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12. THE STRANGER It seemed to the l
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people--Those old chaps over by the
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kind, flushed, almost pitiful glanc
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into the air. The gulls rose; they
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she was. There was Janey. There was
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"Had a good voyage?" "Splendid!" "S
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"Haven't they sent me letters?" "Ye
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But--confound it!--the stewardess w
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mean that she had been ill on the v
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luggage. ***** Walking down the wha
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But they had reached the hotel. The
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"Oh, later on will do!" said Hammon
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"Yes, darling, I am glad," she said
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"Not asleep, are you?" said Hammond
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"I saw the change coming and I sent
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The fire had gone red. Now it fell
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13. BANK HOLIDAY. A stout man with
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'and!" The only ones who are quiet
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sun goes in a shadow flies over; wh
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glazed. When he takes off his hat t
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what?
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glance that went with the gesture,
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at him to make the whole thing over
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the stage." "That's all right, my b
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"The food altogether was too appall
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"There are hundred of cabs about at
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snatched the paper playfully from C
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lounge by the window, stretched out
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long had he been asleep? He listene
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15. THE LADY'S MAID. Eleven o'clock
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could tell the difference." ... Onl
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pride in my hair. He used to sit me
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madam, just enjoying themselves. An
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daffodils in the middle. I've hung-
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apron and my house-shoes, and there
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