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Updated: May 23, 2025
"I think, Mrs. Hemmerde, if you'll get me a tub of hot water, we'll just pop them into it; they'll sleep so much better," she said ... not quite truthfully. Her private reflection was: "I don't think Sarah can once have washed them properly, all that time."
Hemmerde having already given both rooms a sound scouring, just in case a flea or a spider should be lying perdu. After which Polly fell to baking again in good earnest; for the travellers would be famished by the time they arrived.
HEMMERDE, who knows all about the free-list and its services in "enabling the management to keep the house properly dressed" this refers, of course, to the front of the house during the doubtful first weeks of a new play. Mr. HOGGE was in his place again.
It was Polly who innocently for of course he did not draw her into confidence Polly supplied the clue from a piece of gossip brought to the house by the woman Hemmerde. It appeared that, at the time of the rebellion, Mahony's open antagonism to the Reform League had given offence all round to the extremists as well as to the more wary on whose behalf the League was drafted.
Quickly resolved, Polly cut slice on slice of thin bread-and-butter, and with this she and Mrs. Hemmerde stuffed the willing babe till, full to bursting, it warded them off with its tiny hands. Mahony laughed heartily at the tale, and applauded his wife's prompt measures. "Short of the forceps nothing could have been better!" Yes, Polly had a dash of native shrewdness, which he prized.
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