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Updated: May 24, 2025
A lady with three children burst into the drawing-room, and instantly occupied the whole of it; the children cried "Mathaw!" "Mathah!" "Mathaw!" in shrill tones of varied joy. As one of the gentlewomen passed near him, he asked modestly "How much, please?" She dropped a flake of paper on to his table without arresting her course, and said warningly: "You pay at the desk."
"Mathah!" he hurried away, unregarded, unregretted, splendidly repudiated by these delicate refined creatures who were struggling for a livelihood in a great city. Alice Challice "I suppose you are Mr. Leek, aren't you?" a woman greeted him as he stood vaguely hesitant outside St. George's Hall, watching the afternoon audience emerge.
She picked up the sovereign scornfully, and turned it over. "It's very awkward," she muttered. Then she unlocked two drawers, and unwillingly gave him eighteen and sixpence in silver and copper, without another word and without looking at him. "Thank you," said he, pocketing it nervously. And, amid reiterated cries of "Mathah!" "Mathaw!"
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