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272 THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP
at the top of the house, with everything as neat and trim as
possible ; and she begged and prayed I would go and stay with her
—and I said I would, to please her. And then she takes me down
to her room ; and she jumps up to a cupboard, which she unlocks ;
and she opens and takes three-and-twenty pounds out of a—out of
a tea—out of a tea-caddy—confound me !—and she says, ' Here,
Philip,' she says, and—Boo ! what a fool I am!" and here the
orator fairly broke down in his speech.