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"I wonder how we could make you better, when we have been all the while at play up-stairs." "I can guess how," said Annie. "Mother means we didn't make any noise: don't you, mother?" "Not just that, or rather a good deal more than that; but first tell me what you played up-stairs." "Oh, it was so pleasant: wasn't it?
She's in a great hurry. That's what I come down for; I s'posed there was something or nuther." "Why, Winnie Breynton! and you've been sitting there all this " "Where's the key?" interrupted Winnie, severely; "mother hadn't ought to be kept waitin'clock." "It's up-stairs in in, I guess in my slippers," said Gypsy, stopping to think. "Slippers!" "Yes.
I wonder if Inga will remember the muffins for breakfast." "Polly Osgood wants to see you, Catherine." Catherine, busily sorting linen in the up-stairs linen room a little later in the morning, leaned over the railing in answer to her mother's announcement from the hall below. "O, Polly, do come on up. I've a little more to do and we might just as well talk while I'm at it.
"Oh, it's all right; the gentleman up-stairs said there was no charge for birds," explained the Dodo, importantly, thinking that the man was inquiring about his ticket. "H'm! sort of a big parrot, I suppose, Sir?" said the Guard, addressing Dick, and not taking the slightest notice of the Dodo's remark. "Parrot, indeed!" shouted the bird, indignantly.
As I went into the little entry to get my hat and coat, Aunt Rachel entered, followed by Peninnah. At sight of me my aunt cried out that I was a monster and fit for the penitentiary. As she could not hear at all, she had the talk to herself, and went by me and up-stairs, rumbling abuse like distant thunder overhead. Meanwhile I was taken up with Pen.
As they went in, they met the general, who said, "In good time;" and he smiled on Helen as she passed. "It is all settled," whispered Beauclerc to him; "and you are to give her away." "With pleasure," said the general. As Helen went up-stairs, she said to herself, "I understand the general's smile; he thinks I have followed his advice; he thinks I have told all and I I can only be silent."
I ran home, and I need not have gone indoors at all, for I keep my cloak and my spade and the bier in the summer-house, but the bits of wood were in the nursery cupboard, so, after I had got some good roses, and was quite ready, I ran up-stairs, and there, to my great vexation, Nurse met me, and said I was to go to bed.
"Good-afternoon, Bles" using his first name to show him his place, and then inwardly recoiling at its note of familiarity. She preceded him up-stairs to the sitting-room, where, leaving the door ajar, she seated herself on the opposite side of the room and waited. He fidgeted, then spoke rapidly. "Mrs. Cresswell this is a personal affair." She reddened angrily.
He opened the door, went out, and closed it behind him, leaving Sabina Meldreth alone with the dead. He found two or three women down-stairs already; Enid Vane must have told Polly, as she passed through the shop, that Mrs. Meldreth's end had come. As soon as he had gone, two of them went up-stairs to perform the necessary offices in the chamber of death.
Once Madame Voss went over to see him, and brought back word of his well-doing. Exactly at eight o'clock every evening a loud bell was sounded in the hotel of the Lion d'Or at Granpere, and all within the house sat down together to supper. The supper was spread on a long table in the saloon up-stairs, and the room was lighted with camphine lamps, -for as yet gas had not found its way to Granpere.
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