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No. 13 Washington Square

CHAPTER V
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I have considered all possibilities.

My plan is best." "Of course, you're right, ma'am," agreed Matilda.
"On the way back, Olivetta, you are to preserve the same precautions as on the way over.

And to avoid any possible difficulty in getting into the house, I shall provide you with a key to the house and one to my sitting-room." "But you, ma'am," objected Matilda, "in the mean time you cannot stay cooped up all summer in this room!" "I do not intend to," returned Mrs.De Peyster with her consummate calm, which assured her co-conspirators that they could lean untroubled upon her unblundering brain.

"Matilda, will you now please have William come in ?" Matilda, bewildered but obedient, stepped to the door and a moment later followed in the most clean-shaven, the most stiffly perpendicular, the most deferentially dignified, the most irreproachably expressionless of men-servants.

He was the ultimate development of his kind.


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