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His arrival now broke up the breakfast party, and was accepted as a signal that the day's labors must really be attacked. Mrs. Goudie and Mary pushed back their chairs with a horrid scrooping noise, Mavis got up briskly, the baby awoke and began to cry. "No, thank you, Mr. Druitt. Nothing this morning." "I've some sweet-hearted cabbages outside." "No, thank you."
The second Sunday they had all gone in the evening to the English church with Fraulein Pfaff... rush-seated chairs with a ledge for books, placed very close together and scrooping on the stone floor with the movements of the congregation... a little gathering of English people.
Yet no one opened the great oak door; and Angela had a sudden sinking at the heart as the slow minutes passed and brought no sound of footsteps within, no scrooping of a bolt to betoken the opening of the door. "Belike the house is deserted, madam," said the boatman, who had moored his wherry to the landing-stage, and had carried the two trunks to the doorstep.
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