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"
Well
,
you
're
the
comical
girl
,
Molly
,
"
said
Mrs.
Conroy
frankly
.
"
Beannacht
libh
,
"
cried
Miss
Ivors
,
with
a
laugh
,
as
she
ran
down
the
staircase
.
Mary
Jane
gazed
after
her
,
a
moody
puzzled
expression
on
her
face
,
while
Mrs.
Conroy
leaned
over
the
banisters
to
listen
for
the
hall-door
.
Gabriel
asked
himself
was
he
the
cause
of
her
abrupt
departure
.
But
she
did
not
seem
to
be
in
ill
humour
:
she
had
gone
away
laughing
.
He
stared
blankly
down
the
staircase
.
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At
the
moment
Aunt
Kate
came
toddling
out
of
the
supper-room
,
almost
wringing
her
hands
in
despair
.
"
Where
is
Gabriel
?
"
she
cried
.
"
Where
on
earth
is
Gabriel
?
There
's
everyone
waiting
in
there
,
stage
to
let
,
and
nobody
to
carve
the
goose
!
"
"
Here
I
am
,
Aunt
Kate
!
"
cried
Gabriel
,
with
sudden
animation
,
"
ready
to
carve
a
flock
of
geese
,
if
necessary
.
"
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A
fat
brown
goose
lay
at
one
end
of
the
table
and
at
the
other
end
,
on
a
bed
of
creased
paper
strewn
with
sprigs
of
parsley
,
lay
a
great
ham
,
stripped
of
its
outer
skin
and
peppered
over
with
crust
crumbs
,
a
neat
paper
frill
round
its
shin
and
beside
this
was
a
round
of
spiced
beef
.
Between
these
rival
ends
ran
parallel
lines
of
side-dishes
:
two
little
minsters
of
jelly
,
red
and
yellow
;
a
shallow
dish
full
of
blocks
of
blancmange
and
red
jam
,
a
large
green
leaf-shaped
dish
with
a
stalk-shaped
handle
,
on
which
lay
bunches
of
purple
raisins
and
peeled
almonds
,
a
companion
dish
on
which
lay
a
solid
rectangle
of
Smyrna
figs
,
a
dish
of
custard
topped
with
grated
nutmeg
,
a
small
bowl
full
of
chocolates
and
sweets
wrapped
in
gold
and
silver
papers
and
a
glass
vase
in
which
stood
some
tall
celery
stalks
.
In
the
centre
of
the
table
there
stood
,
as
sentries
to
a
fruit-stand
which
upheld
a
pyramid
of
oranges
and
American
apples
,
two
squat
old-fashioned
decanters
of
cut
glass
,
one
containing
port
and
the
other
dark
sherry
.
On
the
closed
square
piano
a
pudding
in
a
huge
yellow
dish
lay
in
waiting
and
behind
it
were
three
squads
of
bottles
of
stout
and
ale
and
minerals
,
drawn
up
according
to
the
colours
of
their
uniforms
,
the
first
two
black
,
with
brown
and
red
labels
,
the
third
and
smallest
squad
white
,
with
transverse
green
sashes
.
Gabriel
took
his
seat
boldly
at
the
head
of
the
table
and
,
having
looked
to
the
edge
of
the
carver
,
plunged
his
fork
firmly
into
the
goose
.
He
felt
quite
at
ease
now
for
he
was
an
expert
carver
and
liked
nothing
better
than
to
find
himself
at
the
head
of
a
well-laden
table
.