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 "I sent him a snap shot of the family."

"Nancy! What for?"

"So that he could see what we were like; so that he'd know we were fit to be lifelong tenants!"

Mrs. Carey turned resignedly to the letter again.

"Oh, dear!" interpolated Nancy. "It seems, lately, as if nobody had both father and mother!"

"The west bedroom; that is n't the painted one; no, of course it is the one where I sleep,"