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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.