six in the
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Aunt M'riar organized the tea-tray to take away and wash up at the sink , after emptying saucer-superfluities into the slop-basin . Mrs. Burr referred to the advantages we enjoy as compared with our forbears , instancing especially our exemption from the worship of wooden images , Egyptian Idles -- a spelling accommodated to meet an impression Mrs. Burr had derived from a Japanese Buddha -- and suchlike , and Tea . `` However they did without it I can not think , '' said she . `` On ` y , of course , not having to stitch , stitch , stitch from half-past six in the morning till bedtime made a difference . '' Her ideas of our ancestors were strongly affected by a copper-plate engraving in a print-shop window in Soho , even as idolatry had been presented to her by a Tea-Man and Grocer in Tottenham Court Road . It was Stothard 's `` Canterbury Pilgrims '' -- _ you _ know ! -- and consequently her _ moyen age _ had a falcon on its wrist , and a jester in attendance , invariably .