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Agatha, with this injunction, bounced out of the room, slamming-to the door so as to make Miss Judith start from her seat. "Ill-mannered girl!" exclaimed Miss Judith. "Now, Jacob Armitage, you may proceed."
Agatha, with this injunction, bounced out of the room, slamming-to the door so as to make Miss Judith start from her seat. "Ill-mannered girl!" exclaimed Miss Judith. "Now, Jacob Armitage, you may proceed."
All at once there was a terrific bang, as though a forty-pounder had been fired to welcome our arrival; and he of the smiles and bows was hurled headlong against the muddy wheel of our conveyance by the slamming-to of the large door. My wife's bonnet blew off and tugged hard at its moorings; the light in the porch was extinguished; while the wind seemed to give a shriek of triumph at the jokes he was playing upon us. Here we were, then, in total darkness and exposed to the drenching rain. However, half-an-hour afterwards all our discomforts were forgotten as we sat down to an excellent dinner
Suddenly, however, it flashed across me that the room in which I was was not over the office, but over the partners' room, and that therefore the sounds I heard must proceed from thence. What could they be up to? I heard a door open and shut, and a noise of what might have been keys, followed by a heavy slamming-to of something which, for the thud it gave, might have been the iron safe itself.
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