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When the house-letting and house- furnishing finally passed into the hands of the state, these things would be lent from the public galleries, or from immense municipal stores for the purpose." "And I suppose you would have ancestral portraits supplied along with the other pictures?" I sneered. "Ancestral portraits, of course," said my friend, with unruffled temper.
"You were wishing, I suppose, sir, to take one be quiet, Dash one of the cottages," suggested Mrs. Barkamb, whose mind ran in one narrow groove, and whose life during the last twenty years had been an unvarying round of house-letting. Robert Audley explained the purpose of his visit. "I come to ask one simple question," he said, in conclusion, "I wish to discover the exact date of Mrs.
We have never had such crowds at the sales, and I have taken on four more clerks in the house-letting department." Burton laughed softly. The humor of the auctioneer's position appealed to him immensely. "I am making money fast," Mr. Waddington admitted, without enthusiasm. "Another year or two of this and I could retire comfortably." "Then what," Burton asked, "is the worry?" Mr.
Cheers were given for the distinguished authoress, and the proceedings terminated. In the year that has passed my time has been fully occupied. To begin with, when the war broke out I studied district-nursing in Walworth for a month. I attended committees, and arranged to go to Belgium, got my kit, and had a good deal of business to arrange in the way of house-letting, etc., etc.
When the house-letting and house- furnishing finally passed into the hands of the state, these things would be lent from the public galleries, or from immense municipal stores for the purpose." "And I suppose you would have ancestral portraits supplied along with the other pictures?" I sneered. "Ancestral portraits, of course," said my friend, with unruffled temper.
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