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ing brass plate, and as he pulled the bell at least a score of young heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house. nay, the acute observer might have recognized the little red nose of good-natured miss jemima pinkerton herself, rising over some geranium pots in the window of that lady's own drawing-room.
"it is mrs. sedley's coach, sister," said miss jemima. "sambo, the black servant, has just rung the bell; and the coachman has a new red waistcoat."
"have you completed all the necessary preparations incident to miss sedley's departure, miss jemima?" asked miss pinkerton herself, that majestic lady; the semiramis of hammersmith, the friend of doctor johnson, the correspondent of mrs. chapone herself.
"the girls were up at four this morning, packing her trunks, sister," replied miss jemima; "we have made her a bow-pot."
"say a bouquet, sister jemima, 'tis more genteel."
"well, a booky
