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The next domestic trial we went through, was the Ordeal of Servants. Mary Anne's cousin deserted into our coal-hole, and was brought out, to our great amazement, by a piquet of his companions in arms, who took him away handcuffed in a procession that covered our front-garden with ignominy.
She went out into the yard, coal-hole, stable, hay-loft, green-house, fowl-house, and piggery, and still there was no sign. Coming in again, she saw a bonnet, eagerly pounced upon it; and found it to be her own.
Haim, flashing a lamp-ray on the coal-hole and the area door as he turned, crossed the stone passage into the other basement room. "This is our second sitting-room," said Mr. Haim, entering. There she was at work, rapt, exactly as George had seen her from the outside. But now he saw the right side of her face instead of the left.
Tommy was for leaving the coal-hole immediately, but I pointed out to him that the captain had not been on board that a and that it was necessary that the captain should believe that he had fallen overboard as well as the officers, or his compassion would not be roused. Tommy saw the propriety of this, and consented to remain another day.
"Why," said I, "you must remain under the table till dark, and then you may easily slip down into the coal-hole, where it is so dark that they never will see you, even if they go down for coals. It is the only place I know of; stay there all to-morrow and next day, and come up in the evening; or the next morning perhaps will be better."
He forgot the bed in the next room, and everything else in the world except the attainment of his object, and running downstairs, returned with a large sledge-hammer that he found in the coal-hole. With his strength concentrated in one blow, he swung it against the back of the bureau, and had the satisfaction of finding his wishes gratified.
"How in the world did he get out?" cried Fanny, steadying herself after a start that nearly sent all three tumbling down stairs. "Coal-hole!" answered a spectral voice from the gloom above. "Good gracious! He must have poked up the cover, climbed into the street, stole the candy, and sneaked in at the shed-window while we were looking for it."
Now I really can pay the butcher; I've had to hide from him the last few mornings, in the coal-hole. You dear child, I hope you won't miss that nice cup too much. When our ship comes in you shall have another." "When," sighed Hilary, who was feeling over-worked that evening. "Well," said Peggy hopefully, "the boarders we have now really do pay their rent the way they never did in Venice.
Again she tried to beg herself off from her visit, in the dread that Felix would go and take some impracticable house in her absence some place with thin walls, no cupboards, and no coal-hole; and she was only pacified by his solemn promise to decide on no house without her.
"Naughty, naughty Eppie," he suddenly began, holding her on his knee, and pointing to her muddy feet and clothes "naughty to cut with the scissors and run away. Eppie must go into the coal-hole for being naughty. Daddy must put her in the coal-hole." He half-expected that this would be shock enough, and that Eppie would begin to cry.
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