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It would be better for them to buy the goods at once, without this ceremony of inspection; for, when we go to see a kitchen fender and meat-screen, Dora sees a Chinese house for Jip, with little bells on the top, and prefers that.
"And some cod-lines laid up for clothes-lines." "Yes, your honour." "Stop, let me look at my list `Knife-tray, meat-screen, leads for window-sashes, Ah! have you any hand-leads not on charge?" "Yes, your honour, four or five." "Give them to my steward. `Small chair for Ellen canvas for veranda. Oh! here's something else have you any painted canvas?"
That singularly awkward and ungainly-looking man, in the brownish-white hat, with the straggling black trousers which reach about half-way down the leg of his boots, who is leaning against the meat-screen, apparently deluding himself into the belief that he is thinking about something, is a splendid sample of a Member of the House of Commons concentrating in his own person the wisdom of a constituency.
Jogglebury said nothing, but slipped quietly out, as if after her keys, to tell Susan to keep so-and-so in the meat-screen, and have a few potatoes ready to boil against Mr. Sponge arrived. She then sidled back quietly into the room. Jog and she presently proceeded to that all-important meal. Jog blowing out the company candles on the side-table as he passed.
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