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Updated: May 28, 2025
Another doorway on the other side of the kitchen led to the first coal-cellar, where was also the slopstone and tap, and thence a tunnel took you to the second coal-cellar, where coke and ashes were stored; the tunnel proceeded to a distant, infinitesimal yard, and from the yard, by ways behind Mr. Critchlow's shop, you could finally emerge, astonished, upon Brougham Street.
Mrs Machin had never seen it in action. She had to admit that it was less complicated than oil-lamps. In the kitchen the electric light blazed upon walls tiled in grey and a floor tiled in black and white. There was a gas range and a marble slopstone with two taps. The woodwork was dark. Earthenware saucepans stood on a shelf. The cupboards were full of gear chiefly in earthenware.
The tap in the coal-cellar, out of repair, could be heard distinctly and systematically dropping water into a jar on the slopstone. "A school-teacher?" inquired Mrs. Baines. "Of course. What other kind is there?" said Sophia, sharply. "With Miss Chetwynd." "I don't think your father would like that," Mrs. Baines replied. "I'm sure he wouldn't like it." "Why not?" "It wouldn't be quite suitable."
You went up two steps, pushed at a door, and instantly found yourself in the principal reception-room, which no earthly blanket could possibly have covered. Behind this chamber could be seen obscurely an apartment so tiny that an auctioneer would have been justified in terming it "bijou," Furnished simply but practically with a slopstone; also the beginnings of a stairway.
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