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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Not at home, sir," said Jenkins in his flurried voice, and prepared to shut the door. "Not at home, Jenkins? You don't mean that!" "Oh, it's you, Dr Lefevre, sir. Mr Courtney is not at home, but perhaps he will see you, sir! I hope he will; for he don't seem to me at all well." "But if he is engaged, Jenkins ?" "Oh, sir, you know what 'not-at-home' means," answered Jenkins.
Instead he looked down at all of his pretty "friend" not sedulously hidden by the paper; He recognized that his friend had a distinctly "not-at-home" look, but after a moment's hesitation he remarked, "You don't expect me to read this alone?" Silence. "Because," continued Peter, "it's an answer to those we wrote and sent yesterday, and I shan't dare reply it without your advice." Silence.
The funny part of it is one may have hundreds of people on one's visiting list and not know half of them by sight, because of the convenient system of the "Not-at-home" box. The men's calling-time is Sunday between twelve and two. Such a ridiculous time! One is certainly not at one's best at that hour.
Some what surprised, though not abashed, at the evident "not-at-home" look of the farm-house, Mr. Dyceworthy rapped loudly at the rough oaken door with his knuckles, there being no such modern convenience as a bell or a knocker. He waited sometime before he was answered, repeating his summons violently at frequent intervals, and swearing irreligiously under his breath as he did so.
"Well now, that's what the maid told me at the parsonage: but I thought, maybe, 'twas a trick a sort of slip-out-by-the-back and not-at-home to a creditor. I've heard of parsons playing that game, and no harm to their conscience, because no lie told." "Sir!" Emilia rose and faced him. "Oh, no offence, miss!
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