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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 10
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If you don't you might look it up in the dicker.

It's not a flower, though it sounds like one out of the gardening book, the kind you never hear of anyone growing.
Dora said she thought it would be splendid.
'And we could have out the best china,' she said, 'and decorate the table with flowers.

We could have tea in the garden.

We've never had a party since we've been here.' 'I warn you that your guests may be boresome; however, have it your own way,' Albert's uncle said; and he went off to write the invitation to tea to the Maidstone Antiquities.

I know that is the wrong word but somehow we all used it whenever we spoke of them, which was often.
In a day or two Albert's uncle came in to tea with a lightly-clouded brow.
'You've let me in for a nice thing,' he said.


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