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Chapter 2 The Walshinghams
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The Cootes lived in a little house in Bouverie Square, with a tangle1 of Virginia creeper up the veranda2.
Kipps had been troubled in his mind about knocking double or single — it is these things show what a man is made of — but happily there was a bell.
A queer little maid with a big cap admitted Kipps, and took him through a bead3 curtain and a door into a little drawing-room, with a black and gold piano, a glazed4 bookcase, a Moorish5 cosy6 corner, and a draped looking-glass overmantel, bright with Regent Street ornaments7 and photographs of various intellectual lights. A number of cards of invitation to meetings and the match list of a Band of Hope cricket club were stuck into the looking-glass frame, with Coote’s name as a Vice–President. There was a bust8 of Beethoven over the bookcase, and the walls were thick with conscientiously9 executed but carelessly selected ‘views’ in oil and water colours and gilt10 frames. At the end of the room, facing the light, was a portrait that struck Kipps at first as being Coote in spectacles and feminine costume, and that he afterwards decided11 must be Coote’s mother. Then the original appeared, and he discovered that it was Coote’s elder and only sister, who kept house for him. She wore her hair in a knob behind, and the sight of the knob suggested to Kipps an explanation for a frequent gesture of Coote’s, a patting exploratory movement to the back of his head. And then it occurred to him that this was quite an absurd idea altogether.
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refinement
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obsolete
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atlas
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hoarseness
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copper
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speculative
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appreciation
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horrid
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replica
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shrugged
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variegated
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interval
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solicitor
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