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Updated: June 25, 2025
Hence, no sooner had the gentleman-in-waiting disappeared with the order than certain esquires appeared with the limbs and body of a table which they set up in Edward Henry's drawing-room, and they covered the board with a damask cloth and half covered the damask cloth with flowers, glasses and plates, and laid a special private wire from the skirting-board near the hearth to a spot on the table beneath Edward Henry's left hand, so that he could summon courtiers on the slightest provocation with the minimum of exertion.
If I recollect right, I have already told you, that I frequently peeped into the hole in the skirting-board, and laid bits of cake to try to entice my little companion back, but all to no purpose: and I had quite given over all hopes of ever again seeing him, when one day, as I was putting my hand into a large jar, which had some Turkey figs in it, I felt something soft at the bottom, and taking it out, found it to be a poor little mouse, not quite dead, but so starved and weak, that upon my placing it upon the table, it had not strength sufficient to get from me.
''Tisn't the water, it's the mud on the skirting-board after it goes down that I mind, Rhoda whispered. 'The last time Coxen's mill broke, I remember it came up to the second no, third step o' Mr. Sidney's stairs. 'What did Sidney do about it? 'He made a notch on the step. 'E said it was a record. Just like 'im. 'It's up to the drive now, said Midmore after another long wait.
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