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The Claverings

CHAPTER VIII
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Come, Harry, we musn't have another bottle, as Jones would go to sleep among the type." Then they all went up stairs together.

Harry, before he went away, was taken again up into the nursery, and there kissed the two little girls in their cots.

When he was outside the nursery door, on the top of the stairs, Mrs.Burton took him by the hand.

"You'll come to us often," said she, "and make yourself at home here, will you not ?" Harry could not but say that he would.
Indeed he did so without hesitation, almost with eagerness, for he had liked her and had liked her house.

"We think of you, you know," she continued, "quite as one of ourselves.


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