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'There's so o' that sound, ain't there, miss?' 'When you say there is, there really seems to be You said there were that is the other horrid sound?' 'The puine That's close by the Old House, and sends water up the hill and all over the Great House We shall hear that directlyThere, now hark again' From the sa creak of cranks, repeated at intervals of half-a- noise between each: a creak, a souse, then another creak, and so on continually

'Now if anybody could h the other sounds, these would finish hiht and day, sureased or visited Ah, it tries the nerves at night, especially if you are not very well; though we don't often hear it at the Great House' 'That sound is certainly very disreased Does Miss Aldclyffe take any interest in these things?' 'Well, scarcely; you see her father doesn't attend to that sort of thing as he used to The engine was once quite his hobby But now he's getten old and very seldooes there' 'How many are there in family?' 'Only her father and herself He's a' old ht that Miss Aldclyffe was sole mistress of the property, and lived here alone' 'No,about to style herthat he was only speaking to the new lady's-maid

'She will soon beby a spirit of prophecy denied to ordinary huentle breath

'Why did you breathe sadly like that?' said Cytherea

'Ah!When he's dead peace will be all over with us old servants I expect to see the old house turned inside out' 'She will marry, do you mean?' 'Marry--not she! I wish she would No, in her soul she's as solitary as Robinson Crusoe, though she has acquaintances in plenty, if not relations There's the rector, Mr Raunhae--yet she's quite distant towards hile there will be hardly a life between Mr

Raunha it, she don't care

She's an extraordinary picture of womankind--very extraordinary' 'In ay besides?' 'You'll know soon enough, miss She has had seven lady's-maids this last twelvemonth I assure you 'tis one body's work to fetch 'eain The Lord lectful party at heart, or he'd never pers on!' 'Does she dismiss them directly they coo theirselves Ye see 'tis like this She's got a very quick te at all; next ; she's sorry for it and wishes they'd stay, but she's as proud as a lucifer, and her pride won't let her say, "Stay," and away they go 'Tis like this in fact If you say to her about anybody, "Ah, poor thing!" she says, "Pooh! indeed!" If you say, "Pooh, indeed!" "Ah, poor thing!" she says directly She hangs the chief baker, as h the devil but Pharaoh herself can see the difference between 'eain a burden to her brother