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Cupboards, as a class, are badly ventilated, and this one seemed to contain no air at all: and the warmth of the night, combined with the cupboard's natural stuffiness, had soon begun to reduce Sam to a condition of pulp. He seemed to himself to be sagging like an ice-cream in front of a fire. The darkness, too, weighed upon him. He was abominably thirsty. Also he wanted to smoke.
The cupboard's contents seemed to Mavis to be eloquent of pinched meals, walks in bad weather to save 'bus fares, mean economies bravely borne; to cry aloud of pitiful efforts made by young hearts to secure a brief taste of their rightful heritage of joy, of which they had been dispossessed. Mavis turned away with a sigh.
Graham shook his head at the sight, and closed the door. 'It is mind, not matter, he thought, as he put on hat and coat in the hall; 'the cupboard's open and the skeleton is out. My premonition was true true. Æsculapius forgive me that I should be so superstitious. The bishop has had a shock. What is it? what is it? That visitor brought bad news! Hum! Hum!
Daddy was on the sofa by the open window, reading manuscript over to himself in a mumbling voice; and Jane Anne, apron on, sleeves tucked up, face flushed, poked her head in from the kitchen: 'Excuse me, Mother, the cupboard's all in distress. I can't find the marmalade anywhere. 'But it's already on the table, child. She saw her Cousin and popped swiftly back again from view.
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