When any of the boys came home drunk itwas Lizzie with a threadbare man's overcoat pul ed over her nightgown who came out to make them shut up. He didn't sound angry, though; he sounded totally pumped. It was cosy in her little pink and white salon with the fire of brickettes going in the grate. Her brother George turned up at the office one day with a captain's two silver bars on his shoulders.
Themedicine-cabinet door clapped shut again and the rest of the glass fellout. Yet an hour later I was up in my stifling study with a glass oftea on the desk beside me (the cubes in it long but old Vogel plied them with beer and made jokes at which Hedwig and AuntHartmann always laughed uproariously, Then when she'd given up expecting him he'd walk hurriedly through with a quick smile al around and the groundglass door of his private office would close behind him.
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