[Happy Pollyooly by Edgar Jepson]@TWC D-Link bookHappy Pollyooly CHAPTER V 3/15
She's going to take you down to Devonshire by the train which leaves Paddington at six," said the Honourable John Ruffin. "Then I'd better take the Lump round to Mrs.Brown at once," said Pollyooly; and her eyes sparkled and danced. "You had," said the Honourable John Ruffin.
"It's only for a couple of nights at the outside, tell her." "And that's quite as long as I like to leave him," she said in a tone of complete satisfaction; and she ran briskly up-stairs to their attic for the Lump's sleeping-suit. She was not long taking him to Mrs.Brown, who lived in the little slum, the last remnant of Alsatia, behind the King's Bench Walk; and she welcomed him warmly.
Pollyooly and he had lodged with her before they had gone to live in the King's Bench Walk, and Mrs.Brown had grown very fond of him.
She had taken charge of him during the time Pollyooly had spent at Ricksborough Court and was delighted to have him with her again.
Also she was disengaged for the next two days and was able to take charge of the housekeeping at number 75 the King's Bench Walk during Pollyooly's absence. Pollyooly had not been gone five minutes, when there came a gentle knocking at the door of the Honourable John Ruffin's chambers.
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