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Show 51 unaccustomad to ssrvants, and set out to accommodate them eithar as friends or mascots, after which they were unserviceable. On only one point did the officers refuse to yield ground: they insisted on clean uniforms. Sid's prograss flushed a number of houseboys from their sanctuaries. Some had bean squatting in ths hall, or shouting out a back window; sighting him thay stood and turned, clicking their hasls and murmurring the slight hissliks greeting; then thay took flight and actsd a grsat davotion to duty. Returning to the main floor Sid peered into the dim, barnliks dining-room, whsre othsr houssboys ware clearing away the tables, and failing to spot the one he had come for, smarged from the side door and walked around to the front. He should drop in mors often; as tha Major exsmplified, half of administration is prsssncs. Ons msrsly had to bs thers, he didn't have to do anything. And certainly much needed to be done: the windows washed, for instance* And one of the cornicss, softsnsd by a climate that, someons observed, was merely diluted Jsrgen's, had already begun to sag. He followed it along, peering for furthsr damags, and noting a suspiciously chsssaliks texture near the sdgs, turnsd ths corner. And almost collided with Kimiko. He stopped, surprised: hadn't he just glimpsed her in his own kitchen? |