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"Come now, take an egg, and don't be foolish. They're not like the / Paddocks eggs, to be sure, but you may as well taste a bit -- or a slice / of ham. John, give Honor a slice of ham -- terrible stripy it looks, to be / sure, but what can you expect when one is that foolish as to go away / from home in this sort of nonsensical way?"
Honor, looking very pale, and with her eyes heavy with weeping, was / sitting behind the big bronze tea-urn -- an article of furniture coeval, / doubtless, with the building of the Bell -- and with a trembling hand was / performing her accustomed duty of making tea for the family. John had / good-naturedly offered to take the affair upon himself, but Mrs. Beacham / had at once vetoed the idea.