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The Wouldbegoods

CHAPTER 4
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She said, Drat you!' and 'Drabbit you!' The last is a thing I have never heard said before.
She said-- 'There's no peace of your life with you children.

Drat your antics! And that poor, dear, patient gentleman right underneath, with his headache and his handwriting: and you rampaging about over his head like young bull-calves.

I wonder you haven't more sense, a great girl like you.' She said this to Alice, and Alice answered gently, as we are told to do-- 'I really am awfully sorry; we forgot about the headache.

Don't be cross, Mrs Pettigrew; we didn't mean to; we didn't think.' 'You never do,' she said, and her voice, though grumpy, was no longer violent.

'Why on earth you can't take yourselves off for the day I don't know.' We all said, 'But may we ?' She said, 'Of course you may.


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