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Updated: June 16, 2025
She could not buy a five-guinea cigar-cabinet with ten and six. She had no other money in the world. She never had money, yet money was always running through her fingers. Stephen treated her generously, gave her an ample allowance, but he would under no circumstances permit credit, nor would he pay her allowance in advance. She had nothing to expect till the New Year.
She had not mentioned the purchase to Mr Woodruff. 'Yes, Stephen, she said timidly. 'That's it, and I hope 'It ought to hold a tidy few cigars, that ought, remarked Stephen complacently. He took it for the cigar-cabinet! She paused, struck. She had to make up her mind in an instant. 'Oh yes, she murmured. 'A thousand? 'Yes, a thousand, she said. 'I thought so, murmured Stephen.
Within five minutes the Cheswardine coachman was driving off in the dogcart to Hanbridge, with the packing-case in the back of the cart, and a note. He brought back the cigar-cabinet. Stephen had not stirred from the dining-room, afraid to encounter a tearful wife. Presently his wife came into the dining-room bearing the vast load of the cigar-cabinet in her delicate arms.
She made an opportunity, before he left for the works, to praise the Venetian vases, and she insisted that he should wrap up well, because he was showing signs of one of his bad colds. In the early afternoon she went to Bostock's emporium, at Hanbridge, to buy the cigar-cabinet and a few domestic trifles. Bostock's is a good shop.
And I can come and gaze at it when I feel depressed. Eh, Maria? He was undoubtedly charmed at the prospect of owning so large and precious a cigar-cabinet.
He was frequently to be seen in the hall, gloating over his cigar-cabinet. Once he urged Vera to have it opened and so get rid of the straw, but she refused, and found the nerve to tell him that he was exaggerating the odour. She was at a loss what to do. She could not get up in the middle of the night and unpack the package and hide its guilty secret.
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