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Just then I heard a loud cough that I kneas old Brownsmith's, for I

had heard it dozens of tiic

I ju to catch it,

and then I saw that old Brownsarden, but in the

lane on our side, and that he was close beneath thelooking up at

me

He nodded, and I had just made up my mind that I would not complain

about Shock, when there was a loud thump of the knocker, and directly

after I heard the door open, a heavy step in the passage, the door

closed, and then the sound of old Browns

, for it was a very dry day, but

he kept on rub--rub--rub, till Mrs Beeton, aited upon us as well

as let us her apartments, caain