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Updated: May 15, 2025
"I am sure, under the circumstances, your aunt would permit " "My conscience would not permit," said Matilda with cold dignity. "We can't stay here till five o'clock," exclaimed Mrs. Stossen with growing exasperation. "Shall I recite to you to make the time pass quicker?" asked Matilda obligingly.
"If they think they're going to drive him away by reciting lists of the kings of Israel and Judah they're laying themselves out for disappointment," observed Matilda from her seat in the medlar tree. As she made the observation aloud Mrs. Stossen became for the first time aware of her presence.
The discomfited Stossen expedition, returning in recriminatory but otherwise orderly retreat from the unyielding obstacle of the locked door, came to a sudden halt at the gate dividing the paddock from the gooseberry garden. "What a villainous-looking animal," exclaimed Mrs. Stossen; "it wasn't there when we came in." "It's there now, anyhow," said her daughter. "What on earth are we to do?
Stossen, digging that coin out of the depths of a receptacle which formed a detached outwork of her toilet. "Claude is a long way ahead of me at present," continued Matilda, taking no notice of the suggested offering; "you see, he's only eleven, and has golden hair, and those are enormous advantages when you're on the collecting job. Only the other day a Russian lady gave him ten shillings.
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