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The Newcomes

CHAPTER VIII
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We ought to go into lodgings, and not fling our money out of the window of this hotel.

We must make the young chap take us about and show us the town in the morning, Tom.

I had but three days of it five-and-twenty years ago, and I propose to reshoome my observations to-morrow after breakfast.

We'll just go on deck and see how's her head before we turn in, eh, Colonel ?" and with this the jolly gentleman nodded over his candle to his friend, and trotted off to bed.
The Colonel and his friend were light sleepers and early risers, like most men that come from the country where they had both been so long sojourning, and were awake and dressed long before the London waiters had thought of quitting their beds.

The housemaid was the only being stirring in the morning when little Mr.Binnie blundered over her pail as she was washing the deck.


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