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these, as always, courteous and chare to

about for a week I set

out one afternoon to call on lishreat oven of India If

not, no harm would be done

It was then that I came for the first time to this house on Adelphi

Terrace, for it was the address Archie had given me Walters let me in,

and I learned from him that Captain Fraser-Freer had not yet arrived

fro his absence,

as seems to be the custom over here--and he was expected soon

Perhaps--said Walters--his wife remembered the date He left , I strolled to the rear of the hall And then, through an open

that let in the sureat love in London--the old ivy-covered walls of brick;

the neat paths between the blooate It was incredible that just outside lay the world's biggest city,

with all its poverty and wealth, its sorrows and joys, its roar and

rattle Here was a garden for Jane Austen to people with fine ladies

and courtly gentlearden to dream in, to adore and to

cherish