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St John arrived first I had entreated hi was arranged: and, indeed, the bare idea

of the co on within its

walls sufficed to scare hi the progress of certain cakes for tea, then

baking Approaching the hearth, he asked, "If I was at last

satisfied with house hieneral inspection of the result of ot 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 ue and trouble to have effected such considerable

changes in so short a ti pleasure in the iht 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 ht on the matter than it orth How

the

arrangement of this very room?--By-the-bye, could I tell him where

such a book was?"

I showed hi to his accustoan to read it