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Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days

CHAPTER VIII
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And then she got the tea-caddy and put seven teaspoonfuls of tea into one of the tea-pots.
"It's very kind of you, I'm sure," whimpered the authentic Mrs.Henry Leek.
"Now, mother, don't give way!" the curates admonished her.
"Don't you remember, Henry," she went on whimpering to Priam, "how you said you wouldn't be married in a church, not for anybody?
And how I gave way to you, like I always did?
And don't you remember how you wouldn't let poor little Johnnie be baptized?
Well, I do hope your opinions have altered.

Eh, but it's strange, it's strange, how two of your sons, and just them two that you'd never set eyes on until this day, should have made up their minds to go into the church! And thanks to Johnnie there, they've been able to.

If I was to tell you all the struggles we've had, you wouldn't believe me.

They were clerks, and they might have been clerks to this day, if it hadn't been for Johnnie.

But Johnnie could always earn money.


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