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"I don't know what I answered," says Caudle, "but I know this: in less than a fortnight I found myself in a sort of a green bird-cage of a house, which my wife gentle satirist insisted upon calling 'The Turtle Dovery." "Tush! You'd never have got me into this wilderness of a place, Mr. Caudle, if I'd only have thought what it was.
"That 'ud be like old Dovery, eh?" says a fifth, alluding to an old grey-headed fellow, who a returned convict was again under sentence for body-snatching. The snuffling imitation of a Methodist preacher was good, and there was another laugh. Just then a miserable little cockney pickpocket, feeling his way to the door, fell into the party. A volley of oaths and kicks received him.
Much you must think of the dear children. A nice place, too, to be called the Turtle Dovery! "I know that, but then, I knew nothing of the black-beetles. Besides, names of houses are for the world outside; not that anybody passes to see ours. Didn't Mrs. Digby insist on calling their new house 'Love-in-Idleness, though everybody knew that that wretch Digby was always beating her?
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