She went down, flushed and light-hearted, to the Widgetts’ after lunch to make some final arrangements and then, as soon as her aunt had retired to lie down for her usual digestive hour, took the risk of the servants having the enterprise to report her proceedings and carried her bag and hold-all to the garden gate, whence Teddy, in a state of ecstatic service, bore them to the railway station. ’ ‘Are we to infer that he had a choice?’ enquired Gerald. He continued to do this for the rest of the evening intermittently, in and out, among other topics. Sections and pages had been pasted together, and all through both Testaments a word had been blotted out. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. Every other wall comprised bookcases, except where the doors appeared. "What's the particular dope?" "If I told you, you would laugh," answered Ah Cum, gravely.
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