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It was very hot the theatre was a pit of fire. Every one else had got out. Jane had to sit on Anthea's lap. 'Home! said Cyril, and instantly the cool draught from under the nursery door played upon their legs as they sat.
Cyril moved the table off the carpet as he spoke, and its leg caught in one of Anthea's darns and ripped away most of it, as well as a large slit in the carpet. 'Well, now you HAVE done it, said Robert. But Anthea was a really first-class sister.
There was a sharp convenient wire inside the bird, and of course the Lamb ran the wire into Robert's leg at once; and so, without anyone's meaning to do it the secret drawer was flooded with ink. At the same time a stream was poured over Anthea's half-finished letter. So that her letter was something like this "DARLING MOTHER, I hope you are quite well, and I hope Granny is better.
Little things that pass as mere ordinary common-places, things insignificant, and wholly beneath notice in the every day world, become fraught with such infinite meaning, and may hold such sublime, such undreamed of possibilities here in Arcadia. Thus, when it is recorded that Anthea's hand accidentally touched, and rested upon Bellew's the significance of it will become at once apparent.
Now, as Bellew watched, he saw Anthea's lips move, but no sound came. Miss Priscilla saw also, and catching the nerveless hand, drew it to her bosom, and wept over it. "Come! come!" expostulated Grimes, jingling the money in his pockets. "Come, come, Miss Anthea, mam! all as I'm axing you is when? All as I want you to do is "
Then we really shall get something out of the old Sammyadd at last!" "Take me, indeed!" said Robert indignantly. "Much more likely me take you!" And so it turned out. The idea appealed irresistibly to everyone but Robert, and even he was brought round by Anthea's suggestion that he should have a double share of any money they might make.
'Ritti-Marduk shall run down to the gates and find out which guard your sister went home with. 'Might he' Anthea's voice was tremulous 'might he would it interfere with his meal-times, or anything like that, if he went NOW? 'Of course he shall go now. He may think himself lucky if he gets his meals at any time, said the Queen heartily, and clapped her hands.
While Anthea was delighting the poor little blackbeetles with the cheerful blaze, Jane had set the table for I was going to say tea, but the meal of which I am speaking was not exactly tea. Let us call it a tea-ish meal. There was tea, certainly, for Anthea's fire blazed and crackled so kindly that it really seemed to be affectionately inviting the kettle to come and sit upon its lap.
Now pay attention, because I don't intend to tell you everything twice over. As the children settled themselves on the floor it was far more comfortable than the chairs, as well as more polite to the Psammead, who was stroking its whiskers on the hearth-rug a sudden cold pain caught at Anthea's heart. Father Mother the darling Lamb all far away.
'Twenty-three farthings and somebody's own cheek, said the dealer, for he did not believe that Cyril had so much money. There was a miserable pause. Then Anthea remembered, and said 'Oh! I WISH I had two pounds ten. 'So do I, Miss, I'm sure, said the man with bitter politeness; 'I wish you 'ad, I'm sure! Anthea's hand was on the counter, something seemed to slide under it. She lifted it.
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