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he hoped, sir, that you'd see it completed It was his

wish, sir"

"Yes, to be sure," I replied

He brought cold fowl and a salad, and produced a

bit of Stilton of unmistakable authenticity

"I trust the ale is cooled to your liking It's your

grandfather's favorite, if I may say it, sir"

I liked the fellow's hurave deference and an accustoht upon the table;

the roos

in a srandfather

had designed to punish me, with loneliness as

his weapon, his shade, if it lurked near,been inured

to my own society I had often eaten my bread alone,

and I found a pleasure in the quiet of the strange unknown

house There stole overa wish ofhe would have me do I

was touched by the traces everywhere of his interest

in as to hi

quite fine in his devotion to it The little refectory

had its air of distinction, though it ithout

decoration There had been, ays said in the

farandsire's devotion to architecture; but I felt that it

had really appealed to sonified and noble

in his own entler mood

than I had known in years possessed my heart He had

asked little of me, and I determined that in that little

I would not fail