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When the black page announced my Lord Barham next morning both Mr. and Miss Merriot were with my lady in the morning-room. My lord was ushered in, very point-device, with laced gloves, and a muff of miniver, and a long beribboned cane. The muff and the cane were given into the page's charge; the door closed behind this diminutive person, and my lord spread wide his arms. "My children! " he exclaimed. "Behold me returned to you!"
His children maintained an admirable composure. "Like Jonah cast up out of the whale's belly," said Robin.