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THE MEWS.
IT WAS late in the afternoon when Diamond and his mother and the baby reached London.

I was so full of Diamond that I forgot to tell you a baby had arrived in the meantime.

His father was waiting for them with his own cab, but they had not told Diamond who the horse was; for his father wanted to enjoy the pleasure of his surprise when he found it out.

He got in with his mother without looking at the horse, and his father having put up Diamond's carpet-bag and his mother's little trunk, got upon the box himself and drove off; and Diamond was quite proud of riding home in his father's own carriage.