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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 2
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Why can't you kids let things alone ?' Albert's uncle said-- 'Bed follows supper as the fruit follows the flower.

They'll do no more mischief to-night, sir.

To-morrow I will point out a few of the things to be avoided in this bucolic retreat.' So it was bed directly after supper, and that was why we did not see much that night.
But in the morning we were all up rather early, and we seemed to have awakened in a new world rich in surprises beyond the dreams of anybody, as it says in the quotation.
We went everywhere we could in the time, but when it was breakfast-time we felt we had not seen half or a quarter.

The room we had breakfast in was exactly like in a story--black oak panels and china in corner cupboards with glass doors.

These doors were locked.


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