The door was so near the sitting-room that every demand made there was easily heard, and even answered from within; and, indeed, Mrs. Bates was in the habit of calling out an answer when it happened to be beyond the powers of the daughter or small servant who opened. But this question was one about which there was no difficulty. It was followed by a hearty laugh from the assembled family. “I should think he was--rather!” said Charley Bates, the son; and “Ask Nancy,” said Matilda, the eldest daughter.…
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