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"New topcoat; light, light brown!" "Pooh! I saw him come by the steamer yesterday, him and a whole heap of English people. They were all brown together; I counted exactly seven different kinds of dirt-colour!" It was Josefa who was using her tongue; she had had practice at a milliner's. "He'll have to take care of the oil!" tittered one. "He's awfully handsome! Look what a grand forehead!
There was no carpet on the floor, which was of a fine dirt-colour, and the chickens, ducks, and geese circulated freely about. Here now was a man paying, or promising to pay, 250l. a year in rent, and who yet seemed to have not the faintest idea of comfort.
The only incident in the book I remember is that this lachrymose child had an aunt, a Miss Fortune, who objected on principle to clean stockings. She accordingly dyed all Ellen's stockings dirt-colour, to save the washing. It would be charitable to assume that this particular Member of Parliament had an aunt with the same economical instincts.
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