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It was in this fashion that the Maison Mardel presented its weekly bills to its guests. "Merci!" she called aloud, leaving her dressing to go and pick up the paper. A pant from without answered her and the slippers thudded away.
In many towns we find here and there an old half-timbered dwelling, but in Shrewsbury there is a surprising wealth of them streets full of them, bearing such strange medieval names as "Mardel" or "Wyle Cop." Shrewsbury is second to no other town in England in the interest of its ancient domestic buildings.
"You'll have to do; but I wish I wish you hadn't got that sort of doomed look. Good-bye, old girl!" At the foot of the stairs, in the open door of that room which was labeled "Bureau," where a bed and a birdcage and a smell of food kept company with the roll-top desk, stood the patronne, Madame Mardel. She moved a little forth into the passage as Annette approached. "Good morning, mademoiselle.
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