And the man was to 'ave come this very day to see to that blessed roof.

Come, wake up, do, Master Austin, and tell me how it happened." "Is Aunt Charlotte up yet ?" asked Austin turning over on his side.
"Ay, that she be, and making it lively for the maids downstairs.
Whatever will she say when she hears about this to-do ?" exclaimed Martha, with her hands upon her hips as she gazed at the desolation round her.
"Well, please go down and ask her to come up here at once," said Austin.

"I see I shall have to say something, and it really will be too much bother to go over it to everybody in turn.

I've had rather a disturbed night, and feel most awfully tired.

So just run down and bring her up as soon as ever you can, and then we'll get it over." "A pretty business--and me with forty-eleven things to do already to-day," muttered the old servant as she hurried out.