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Updated: May 13, 2025
Negget, with a carpet-brush which almost spoke, swept the pieces of dried mud from the stairs. Mr. Negget was the last to go to bed that night, and finishing his pipe over the dying fire, sat for some time in deep thought. He had from the first raised objections to the presence of Mr.
Negget, with a carpet-brush which almost spoke, swept the pieces of dried mud from the stairs. Mr. Negget was the last to go to bed that night, and finishing his pipe over the dying fire, sat for some time in deep thought. He had from the first raised objections to the presence of Mr.
One of these doors was open, and in the doorway could be seen the latter half of a woman and the forward half of a carpet-brush. She was evidently brushing the carpet of a room and gradually coming out of the room and into the passage. She wore a large blue pinafore apron, and she was so absorbed in her business that the advent of Mr. Prohack passed quite unnoticed by her. Mr. Prohack waited.
"You're for sentry-duty to-night," said the captain, "The carpet-brush is in the corner. Good-evening." As his father anticipated, Robert was soon tired of the sentry game in these new circumstances, and long before the night had half worn away he wished himself safely undressed and in his own comfortable bed.
"And misses spoke to him, and he promised not to go round the guards again." "Has he broken his promise?" asked the Captain, with a look of anger and also surprise. "When I opened the door last night, sir," continued Sarah, in her shrill treble, "what should I see in the dark but Master Robert a-walking up and down with the carpet-brush stuck in his arm. 'Who goes there? says he.
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