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Meanwhile I had become a regularly-established inmate of Mr Dobson's house, and was half-jocularly styled "Dr McTougall's assistant." I confess that I had some hesitation at first in accepting such generous hospitality, but, feeling that I could not help myself till my leg should recover, I became reconciled to it.
But after long observation, I have come to the deliberate conclusion that nothing whatever gave Robin such ineffable joy as an explosion! A crash, a burst, a general reduction of anything to instantaneous and elemental ruin, was so dear to him that I verily believe he would have taken his chance, and stood by, if I had proposed to blow the roof off Dr McTougall's mansion.
Then, as time advanced, the doctor who was an experimental chemist, as well as a Jack-of-all-trades found me so useful to him in his laboratory, that I felt I was really earning my board and lodging. Meanwhile Lilly Blythe had been sent to visit an aunt of Dr McTougall's in Kent for the benefit of her health. This was well. I felt it to be so.
It was not in Dr McTougall's nursery alone that the game of Lost and Found was played. In a little schoolroom, not far distant from our abode, that game was played by Edie assisted by Robin Slidder and myself with considerable success.
"Good dog good do-o-og," said the Slogger, in his softest and most insinuating tone. Dumps reduced his bark to a growl. The footman heard both bark and growl, but, attributing them to the influence of cats, turned on his other side and listened not for burglars, innocent man, but for the tube. It was silent! Evidently "tired nature" was, in Mrs McTougall's case, lulled by the "sweet restorer."
On the floor above, besides various bedrooms, there were the night nursery and the schoolroom. In one of the bedrooms slumbered the young lady who had robbed me of my doggie! In the nursery were four cribs and a cradle. Dr McTougall's family had come in what I may style annual progression. Six years had he been married, and each year had contributed another annual to the army.
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