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Framley Parsonage

CHAPTER VII
12/18

We'll send round to the whole party and ferret them out." And then Mr.Sowerby, having evoked manifold aid with various peals of the bell, sent messengers, male and female, flying to all the different rooms.
"I think I'll hire a gig and go over at once," said Mark.

"It would not do for me to be late, you know." "It won't do for any of us to be late; and it's all nonsense about hiring a gig.

It would be just throwing a sovereign away, and we should pass you on the road.

Go down and see that the tea is made, and all that; and make them have the bill ready; and, Robarts, you may pay it too, if you like it.

But I believe we may as well leave that to Baron Borneo--eh ?" And then Mark did go down and make the tea, and he did order the bill; and then he walked about the room, looking at his watch, and nervously waiting for the footsteps of his friends.


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