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"Worth doing! yes, indeed," said Dorothea, energetically, forgetting

her previous small vexations "I think we deserve to be beaten out of

our beautiful houses with a scourge of small cords--all of us who let

tenants live in such sties as we see round us Life in cottages ht

be happier than ours, if they were real houses fit for hus

from e expect duties and affections"

"Will you show me your plan?"

"Yes, certainly I dare say it is very faulty But I have been

exaes in Loudon's book, and picked out

what sees Oh what a happiness it would be to set the

pattern about here! I think instead of Lazarus at the gate, we should

put the pigsty cottages outside the park-gate"

Dorothea was in the best te

built at Lowick, and more and more elsewhere in imitation--it would be

as if the spirit of Oberlin had passed over the parishes to make the

life of poverty beautiful!

Sir James saw all the plans, and took one away to consult upon with

Lovegood He also took away a coress in Miss Brooke's good opinion The Maltese puppy was