or Bishops,but round the back way, and a very long way round itwas; and into a little back-door, where the ash-boy letthem in, yawning horribly ; and then in a passage thehousekeeper met them, in such a flowered chintzdressing- gown,that Tom mis-took her for MyLady herself, andshe gave Grimessolemn… … and Torn did mind, all at least that he could. Andthen the housekeeper turned them into a grand room, 22 THE WATER-BABIES CHAP. all covered up in sheets of brown paper, and bn.dethem begin, in a lofty and tremendous voice; and soafter a whimper or two, and a kick from his master,into the grate Tom…
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