La! Mr. Jabez, what a time it is since you called!' said Mrs. Turvey, with a toss of the head that sent her cap awry.
Mr. Jabez, who had come to see Mr. Egerton on behalf of the firm, and was thus apostrophized in the hall by 'the guardian angel of the house' (the title Mr. Duck had himself conferred on her in a poetic flight), felt very uncomfo
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