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A new chapter in a novel is so like a new scene in a play;

and when I draw up the curtain this tie Inn at Millcote, with such large figured

papering on the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such

furniture, such orna

a portrait of George the Third, and another of the Prince of Wales,

and a representation of the death of Wolfe All this is visible to

you by the light of an oil la, and by

that of an excellent fire, near which I sit in my cloak and bonnet;

away the

numbness and chill contracted by sixteen hours' exposure to the

rawness of an October day: I left Lowton at four o'clock aht

Reader, though I look comfortably accoht when the coach stopped here there

would be some one to meet me; I looked anxiously round as I

descended the wooden steps the "boots" placed forto hear e waiting to conveyof the sort

was visible; and when I asked a waiter if any one had been to