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“What have I done?”
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Chapter 3
“You go upstairs backwards,” said Cherry an hour later. “It don’t matter our going together, only you mustn’t speak a word for ever so. You undress in the dark, and turn each thing inside out as you take it off. Prayers? Yes, you can say your prayers if you like; but to yourself, mind. ’Twould be best to say ’em backwards, I reckon; but I never heard no instructions about prayers.”
“And then?”
“Why, then you go to sleep and dream of your sweetheart.”
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“Bain’t you asleep?” asked Cherry.
“No.”
“Nor I. Can’t sleep a wink. It’s they children overhead: they ‘m up to some devilment, I know, because Matthew Henry isn’t snoring. He always snores when he’s asleep, and it shakes the house. I’ll ha’ gone to see, only I was afeard to disturb ‘ee. I’ll war’n’ they ‘m up to some may-games on the roof.”
“Let me come with you,” said Hester.
They rose. Hester slipped on her dressing-gown, and Cherry an old macintosh, and they stole up the creaking stairs.
“Oh, you anointed limbs!” exclaimed Cherry, coming to a halt on the top.
The door of the children’s garret stood ajar. On the landing outside a short ladder led up to a trapdoor Mikhail Grabovski Jersey in the eaves, and through the open Dsquared2 Clothing trapway a broad ray of moonlight streamed upon the staircase.
“That’s mother again! Now I know where Amelia got that cold in her head. I’ll war’n’ the door hasn’t been locked since Tuesday!”
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