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Chapter 9. June 21st, the day of the birthday, was cloudy and unsettled at sunrise, but towards noon,

it cleared up bravely. We, in the Servants Hall, began this happy anniversary as usual by offering

our little presence to Miss Rachel with the regular speech delivered annually by me as the chief.

I followed the plan adopted by the Queen in opening Parliament, namely the plan of saying much

the same thing regularly every year. Before it is delivered, my speech, like the Queen's,

is looked for as eagerly as if nothing of the kind had ever been heard before. When it is

delivered and turns out not to be the novelty anticipated, though they grumble a little,

they look forward hopefully to something newer next year. An easy people to govern in the Parliament

and in the kitchen, that's the moral of it. After breakfast, Mr. Franklin and I had a private

conference on the subject of the moonstone, the time having now come for removing it from the

banquet Frizzing Hall and placing it in Miss Rachel's own hands. Whether he had been trying

to make love to his cousin again and had got a rebuff, or whether his broken rest,

night after night, was aggravating the queer contradictions and uncertainties in his character,

I don't know. But certain it is that Mr. Franklin failed to show himself at his best on the

morning of the birthday. He was in twenty different minds about the diamond in his many minutes.

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