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"Your Imperial Highness," began the official, "since you have been pleased once or twice to follow my counsel, I beg of you to give ear now to what I say."
"Hullo!" he cried, shouting in at the open door, through which much squalor was visible.
The child was a clever child and a good child--and she would have paid you for any kindness you had shown her.
He had had it conveyed to him, in an accidental touch of his wife's elbow as she knitted and warbled, that he would do best to answer, but always with brevity.
