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Peter

CHAPTER VI
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No, don't worry, only Anno Domini--you'll come to it some day.

How delightfully you are settled!" They had entered the cosey sitting-room and Jack was helping with his coat; Parkins, with his nose in the air (he had heard his master's criticism), having already placed his hat on a side table and the umbrella in the corner.
"Where will you sit--in the big chair by the fire or in this long straw one ?" cried the boy, Peter's coat still in his hand.
"Nowhere yet; let me look around a little." One of Peter's tests of a man was the things he lived with.

"Ah! books ?" and he peered at a row on the mantel.

"Macaulay, I see, and here's Poe: Good, very good--why, certainly it is--Where did you get this Morland ?" and again Peter's glasses went up.

"Through that door is your bedroom--yes, and the bath.
Very charming, I must say.


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