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The Lion and The Mouse

CHAPTER VI
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We are all one happy family.
That's why my sister and I called to make your acquaintance." "You are very good, I'm sure.

I shall tell my husband you came and he'll be very pleased." Having exhausted his conversational powers and seeing that further efforts to pump Mrs.Rossmore were useless, the clerical visitor rose to depart: "It looks like rain.

Come, Jane, we had better go.

Good-bye, Madam, I am delighted to have made this little visit and I trust you will assure Mr.Rossmore that All Souls Unified Baptismal Presbytery always has a warm welcome for him." They bowed and Mrs.Rossmore bowed.

The agony was over and as the door closed on them Mrs.Rossmore gave a sigh of relief.
That evening Stott and the judge came home earlier than usual and from their dejected appearance Mrs.Rossmore divined bad news.


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