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So, too, with the cups: they were placed equidistant from the teapot, the sides of the tray, and each other, while a salver of cake on one side of the table was scrupulously balanced by a plate of buns on the other side. "Miss Aileen Hazlit," announced Miss Pritty's small and only domestic, who flung wide open the door of the boudoir, as its owner was fond of styling it.
Nobody else being able to put them right, there would be irretrievable confusion. What do you want, eh?" The first part of Miss Pritty's mutterances was a soliloquy; the query was addressed to her small and only domestic with the dishevelled head, who lingered at the door from motives of curiosity. "Nothink, ma'am. Do you wish me to wait, ma'am?" "No; go."
The men obeyed, and one or two yells told that it had not been without effect, nevertheless, all the miscreants escaped with the exception of Miss Pritty's captive, who, unable to clear himself from her close embrace with sufficient speed, was collared and throttled into submission by Edgar. "We'll divide our force here," said the captain.
We have not succeeded in getting a cook, being in the meantime obliged to content ourselves with a temporary loan of the green-grocer's wife, and of Miss Pritty's small domestic; therefore I want to engage your wife, who is at present, I believe, open to an engagement.
Miss Pritty's kind face beamed agreement with these sentiments. "Now," continued Aileen, "these jewels are, it seems, worth a great deal of money much more than I had any idea of for there are among them a number of very fine diamond rings and brooches. In fact, papa told me that he believed the whole were worth between eight and nine thousand pounds. How fortunate it was that these pirates "
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