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Excerpt from Santa Lucia: A Common Story
Doctor's cat; Jap banging the stable door, and passing the compliments of the morning to the Doctor's team; the Doctor himself calling out in his fat, comfortable voice. The smell of frying meat arose from the kitchen, and from the Doctor's study directly underneath came a deep rumbling with an occasional creaking of furniture, and between the centres of disturbance ran a pattering trail of foot steps. That was the Doctor's wife, who at fifty seven, with a servant of sixteen years' standing, was still of the opinion that the breakfast could not be got on the table without her. When the rumble broke into staccato points of laughter, William laughed too, sat up in the bed, and began to search among the pillows for her hair-pins. When the Doctor's daughter laughed you saw at once how pleasant she was. It lightened with unguessable curves and dimples a face that was too round, too red and shining, and brought fine points of fire into eyes too palely blue and equable.
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