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A Flat Iron for a Farthing

CHAPTER IV
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I will take every care of him, and you must come up and fetch him back.
It will do you good too." "To be sure!" chimed in Uncle Ascott, patting me good-naturedly on the head; "Master Reginald will fancy himself in Fairy Land.

There are the Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's Waxwork Exhibition, and the Pantomime, and no one knows what besides! We shall make him quite at home! He and Helen are just the same age, I think, and Polly's a year or so younger, eh, mamma ?" "Nineteen months," said Aunt Maria, decisively; and she turned once more to my father, upon whom she was urging certain particulars.
It was with unfeigned joy that I heard my father say, "Well, thank you, Maria.

I do think it will do him good.

And I'll certainly come and look you and Robert up myself." There was only one drawback to my pleasure, when the much anticipated time of my first visit to London came.

Aunt Maria did not like dogs; Uncle Ascott too said that "they were very rural and nice for the country, but that they didn't do in a town house.


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