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"There's Mrs 'Astings, doing the floors in Bickers's." Mrs Hastings was duly summoned, and arrived with her broom and kneeling-pad. "My good woman, can you tell me the fare from Blankington here?" The lady looked perplexed, then embarrassed, then angry. "And you fetched me over from Bickers's me, with my lame foot, over the cobbles to ask me that! You oughter be ashamed of yerself, young man.
The railway took him as far as Blankington Junction, about five miles from Grandcourt; and, as it would be some time before a Grandcourt train came up, he decided, after seeing his effects into a cab, to take advantage of the fine, frosty afternoon, and complete his journey on foot. He was, in fact, beginning to grow a little depressed, and the exercise would brace him up.
"I rather wonder it did not suggest itself to you to call on me for information." Railsford wondered so too, and felt rather sheepish. "Your train must have been late. I expected you an hour ago." "I think we were up to time. I walked from Blankington here." "Really I wish I had known of your intention."
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