[The Three Clerks by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Three Clerks CHAPTER XXV 25/25
'Come along, and don't keep them waiting any longer.
They are all in the passage.
This was your fault, Master Charley.' 'O no, it was not,' said Katie; 'but we thought----' 'Never mind thinking,' said Gertrude, 'but come along.' And so they hurried on, and were soon replaced in their respective vehicles, and then went back to town. 'Well, I do think the Chiswick Gardens is the nicest place in all the world,' said Katie, leaning back in the cab, and meditating on her past enjoyment. 'They are very pretty--very,' said Lactimel Neverbend.
'I only wish every cottar had such a garden behind his cottage.
I am sure we might manage it, if we set about it in the right way.' 'What! as big as Chiswick ?' said Katie. 'No; not so big,' said Lactimel; 'but quite as nicely kept.' 'I think the pigs would get in,' said Katie. 'It would be much easier, and more important too, to keep their minds nicely,' said Ugolina; and there the pigs could never get in.' 'No; I suppose not,' said Katie. 'I don't know that,' said Lactimel..
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