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sed; and all was in readiness。

St。 John arrived first。 I had entreated him to keep quite clear of the house till everything was arranged: and; indeed; the bare idea of the motion; at once sordid and trivial; going on within its walls sufficed to scare him to estrangement。 He found me in the kitchen; watching the progress of certain cakes for tea; then baking。 Approaching the hearth; he asked; “If I was at last satisfied with housemaid’s work?” I answered by inviting him to acpany me on a general inspection of the result of my labours。 With some difficulty; I got him to make the tour of the house。 He just looked in at the doors I opened; and when he had wandered upstairs and downstairs; he said I must have gone through a great deal of fatigue and trouble to have effected such considerable changes in so short a time: but not a syllable did he utter indicating pleasure in the improved aspect of his abode。

This silence damped me。 I thought perhaps the alterations had disturbed some old associations he valued。 I inquired whether this was the case: no doubt in a somewhat crest…fallen tone。

“Not at all; he had; on the contrary; remarked that I had scrupulously respected every association: he feared; indeed; I must have bestowed more thought on the matter than it was worth。 How many minutes; for instance; had I devoted to studying the arrangement of this very room?—By…the…bye; could I tell him where such a book was?”

I showed him the volume on the shel

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