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Barkington, that lodged above. "He is a decent body, miss, and between you and me, I think his complaint is, he don't get quite enough to eat." "Barkington!" said Julia, and put her hand to her bosom. She went and tapped at his door. "Come in," said a shrillish voice. She entered, and found a weazened old man seated, mending his own coat. He rose, and she told him she was a district visitor.
'You mean the black flag of poor Jensen? she said; and when I nodded she began to pity Jensen for his belief in his trophy, which, after all, had brought him no more luck than a sea grave; and then she went on with shrillish laughter to tell me that she had begged it of him to give her to make into a petticoat, 'For it would have made a bonny petticoat, would it not? she said suddenly, coming to a sharp end and looking me earnestly in the face.
"Your best plan," she decided, "is to step along with me, and at the stage door, or inside the theatre at any rate, we'll soon find somebody to put you in the way." But here a small figure stepped out against us from the shadow of the platform, and a small shrillish voice piped up "For a copper, miss or a copper apiece if they'll trust me. Find the Blue Postesses?
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