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It was Caroline's birthday, and she had had some very pleasant presents. There was a blotting-book of blue leather (at least, it looked like leather), with pink and purple roses painted on it, from her younger sister Charlotte; and a paint-box-from her brother Charles-as good as new.
‘I've hardly used it at all,' he said, ‘and it's much nicer than anything I could have bought you with my own money, and I've wiped all the paints clean.'