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'And Dick, though pale as any ghost, / Had only said to me, / "We're all right now, old lad. " / _Author of 'John Halifax. '_
Miss Neale was rather in a hurry to get home that afternoon, so she and Celestina did not linger at the tea-table as they sometimes did. By half-past four they had gone, for on Miss Neale's account tea had been ordered half an hour earlier than usual.