Bertram Smith

Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3824… (19th and 20th century)

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Bertram Smith Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3824… (19th and 20th century)

The shouts of the newsvendor died away.
"We must not forget," said the Reverend Henry irrelevantly, that Cook is a Dissenter." Then suddenly he broke out. "I wish I know," he said. "I am not paying the least attention to this book and I shan't sleep well, and I shall get up about two hours before the morning paper arrives, and be restive till I know whether the Belgians got out. But what am I to do? I can't ask Cook." in
"I might go down," his wife volunteered. I needn't say anything about about it, you know. I could just stroll about the kitchen and change the orders for breakfast.
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