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Her own comfortable house always contained one or more of the odd-come-shorts whom she had not managed to place out in good situations. Again a wave of resentment swept over Mrs. Otway. This was really too much! "How would such a woman as you describe a cook who has been in a good London place, and who has lost her health work into our mine and Rose's ways?
To-day, Barbara, Algy, and I, are all constrained to dine; for have not we a dinner-party, or rather a mild simulation of one? a squire or two, a squiress or two, a curate or two such odd-come-shorts as can be got together in a scattered country neighborhood at briefest notice. Barbara and I, as it happens, are both late.
Just now there was the Belgian family, and also, as Anna had managed to discover, three odd-come-shorts in the kitchen. Anna's general unease had not been lessened by a mysterious letter which she had received from her daughter this morning. In it the writer hinted that her husband was getting into some fresh trouble.
It was characteristic that Nan's liking for John Coxeter often took the form of asking him to help these queer, unsatisfactory people. Why, even in this last week, while he had been in Paris, he had come into close relation with one of Mrs. Archdale's "odd-come-shorts." This time the man was an inventor, and of all unpractical and useless things he had patented an appliance for saving life at sea!
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