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She used to come in sometimes from her walk to the office, on a cold, moonlight evening, and stand looking in at them all through the "keeping-room" window, her father prosing over the state of the flour-market, her mother on the lounge, the children waiting for her to put them to bed; Methuselah poring over his arithmetic in his little-old-mannish way; Moppet tying the baby and the kitten together, stand looking till the hot, shamed blood shot to her forehead, for thought of how she was wearied of the sight.
I found a new explanation by saying that, after all, war was their professional chance in fact, exactly what a shortage in the flour-market was to a man who had quantities of wheat on hand. That night we travelled to London, arriving about two o'clock in the morning. There was little to denote that a European war was on, except that people were a trifle more animated and cheerful.
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