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176 there's not much more than half of it left, even counting the sugar."

We did not wish to tell Eliza&mdash;I don't know why. And she opened the door very quickly that day, so that the Taxes and a man who came to our house by mistake for next door got away before Alice had a chance to try them with the Castilian Amoroso. But about five Eliza slipped out for half an hour to see a friend who was making her a hat for Sunday, and while she was gone there was a knock. Alice went, and we looked over the banisters. When she opened the door, she said at once, "Will you walk in, please?" The person at the door said, "I called to see your Pa, miss. Is he at home?"

Alice said again, "Will you walk in, please?"

Then the person&mdash;it sounded like a man&mdash;said, "He is in, then?" But Alice only kept on saying, "Will you walk in, please?" so at last the man did, rubbing his boots very loudly on the mat. Then Alice shut the front door, and we saw that it was the butcher, with an envelope in his hand. He was not dressed in blue, like when he is cutting up the sheep and things in the shop, and he wore knickerbockers. Alice says he came on a bicycle.