Blanche and Aunt Sarah's Speeches

Mrs Hopkinson, in very short petticoats, displaying a pair of feet that left large impressions on the soaked gravel. The important butler came to announce that he had sent into the village for a person who understood the chimney in its strange ways. He really could not undertake it, and the smoke, as he phrased it, gained upon him every minute. So, as Blanche said, they seemed likely to pass their afternoon in a mitigated shower-bath. But just then a portly figure was seen coming up the gravel walk, and Mrs. Hopkinson presented herself. She began the set speech which she had been composing ever since she took a resolution of offering

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