He
never did, for a couple of glasses and one more was all he ever took,
so I don't know how he knew about drinking it all night, but he was a
very fine judge of wine. So I said to Elizabeth, 'A bottle of the old
Burgundy, Elizabeth,' Well, on that evening I stopped behind a bit, to
have another look at the Guru, and get my book, and when I came up the
street again, what should I see but Miss Bracely walking in to the
little front garden at 'Old Place.' It was getting dark, I know, and my
eyes aren't like Mrs Antrobus's, which I call gimlets, but I saw her
plain enough. And if it wasn't the next day, it was the day after that,
that they began mending the roof, and since then, there have been
plumbers and painters and upholsterers and furniture vans at the door
day and night."
"Haw, hum," said the Colonel, "then do you mean that it's Miss Bracely
who has taken it?"
Mrs Weston nodded her head up and down.
"I shall ask you what you think when I've told you all," she said.
"Well! There came a day, and if today's Friday it would be last Tuesday
fortnight, and if today's Thursday, for I get mixed about it this
morning, and then I never get it straight till next Sunday, but if
today's Thursday, then it would be last Monday fortnight, when the Guru
went away very suddenly, and I'm sure I wasn't very sorry, because
those breathings made me feel very giddy and yet I didn't like to be
out of it all.
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