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The omnibuses, all white, trotted on an inward curve to the pavement, stopped while the conductor, with hand raised to the bell-string, murmured apathetically the names of streets and of public-houses, and then they jerked off again on an outward curve to the impatient double ting of the bell.
Yet again she could have sworn that she heard the faint jar of the closing door. She reached out and put her hand on the bell-string that hung down over her bed. Then she hesitated. It was too ridiculous, she told herself. Besides, Charlotte would have gone to her room.
'Fear you'll come on badly, observed Captain Seedeybuck, holding up an empty one, 'for Bouncey and I have just finished the last'; the captain chucking the bottle sideways on to the floor, and rolling it towards its companion in the corner. 'Have a fresh bottle, suggested Lady Scattercash, drawing the bell-string at her chair. 'Champagne, said her ladyship, as the footman answered the summons.
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