[The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wouldbegoods CHAPTER 10 23/34
She unfolded the tale about our getting the jugs and burying them in the moonlight, and the mound; and the others listened with deeply respectful interest.
'We really have done it this time, haven't we ?' she added in tones of well-deserved triumph. But Oswald had noticed a queer look about Albert's uncle from almost the beginning of Alice's recital; and he now had the sensation of something being up, which has on other occasions frozen his noble blood.
The silence of Albert's uncle now froze it yet more Arcticly. 'Haven't we ?' repeated Alice, unconscious of what her sensitive brother's delicate feelings had already got hold of.
'We have done it this time, haven't we ?' 'Since you ask me thus pointedly,' answered Albert's uncle at last, 'I cannot but confess that I think you have indeed done it.
Those pots on the top of the library cupboard ARE Roman pottery.
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