The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories - Plot & Excerpts
said Mrs. Armitage, looking over her coffee-cup at the little heap of sixpences on the sideboard, “the children have forgotten to take their lunch money to school. You could go that way to the office and leave it, couldn't you, darling?" The house still reverberated from the slam of the front door, but the children were out of sight, as Mr. Armitage gloomily ascertained. "I hate going to that place,” he said. “Miss Croot makes me feel so small, and all the little tots look at me." "Nonsense, dear. And anyway, why shouldn't they?” Mrs. Armitage returned in a marked manner to the Stitch Woman and Home Beautifier's Journal, so her husband, with the sigh of a martyr, put on his hat, tucked The Times and his umbrella under his arm, and picked up the money. He dropped a kiss on his wife's brow, and in his turn went out, but without slamming the door, into the October day. Instead of going down the cobbled hill towards his office, he turned left up the little passageway which led to Mrs.
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