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though they were, they could see that the plates, cups, saucers and
other dishes were not like the kind set on their table every day.
What could Miss Pompret mean about a "mystery" connected with her set of
china?
CHAPTER V
"WHAT A LOT OF MONEY!"
Bert and Nan sat up very straight on the chairs in Miss Pompret's dining
room, and looked first at her and then at the china closet with its
shiny, glass doors. Miss Pompret sat up very straight, too, in her
chair, and she, also, looked first from Nan and Bert to the wonderful
china, which seemed made partly of egg shells, so fine it was and
pretty.
Miss Pompret's dining room was one in which it seemed every one had to
sit up straight, and in which every chair had to be in just the right
place, where the table legs must keep very straight, too, and where not
even a corner of a rug dared to be turned up. In fact it was a very
straight, old-fashioned but very beautiful dining room, and Miss Pompret
herself was an old-fashioned but beautiful lady.
"Now if you will sit very still, and not move, I'll bring out some
pieces of my china set and show them to you," said Miss Pompret.
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