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And now for a month or more Mahony had been in possession of a room that was all his own. Did he retire into it and shut the door, he could make sure of not being disturbed. Polly herself tapped before entering; and he let her do so. Polly was dear; but dearer still was his long-coveted privacy.
He knew, too, that she was happily employed; the fitting-up and furnishing of the house was a job after her own heart. She had proved both skilful1 and economical at it: thanks to her, they had used a bare three-quarters of the sum allotted2 by Ocock for the purpose — and this was well; for any number of unforeseen expenses had cropped up at the last moment. Polly had a real knack3 for making things “do”. Old empty boxes, for instance, underwent marvellous transformations5 at her hands — emerged, clad in chintz and muslin, as sofas and toilet-tables. She hung her curtains on strings6, and herself sewed the seams of the parlour carpet, squatting7 Turk-fashion on the floor, and working away, with a great needle shaped like a scimitar, till the perspiration8 ran down her face. It was also she who, standing9 on the kitchen-table, put up the only two pictures they possessed10, Ned and Jerry giving opinions on the straightness of her eye, from below: a fancy picture of the Battle of Waterloo in the parlour; a print of “Harvey Discovering the Circulation of the Blood” on the surgery wall.
From where he sat Mahony could hear the voices of the children — John’s children — at play. They frolicked with Pompey in the yard. He could endure them, now that he was not for ever tumbling over them. Yes, one and all were comfortably established under the new roof — with the exception of poor Palmerston the cat. Palmerston had declined to recognise the change, and with the immoderate homing-instinct of his kind had returned night after night to his old haunts. For some time Mahony’s regular evening walk was back to the store — a road he would otherwise not have taken; for it was

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repel
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Christian
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