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Froh already seen, and always to be seen at five o'clock, the general could not forgo the pleasure of pacing out the length, for the more certain information of Miss Morland, as to what she neither doubted nor cared for, they proceeded by quick communication to the kitchen--the ancient kitchen of the convent, rich in the massy walls and smoke of former days, and in the stoves and hot closets of the present The general's i hand had not loitered here: every modern invention to facilitate the labour of the cooks had been adopted within this, their spacious theatre; and, when the genius of others had failed, his own had often produced the perfection wanted His endowh a the benefactors of the convent

With the walls of the kitchen ended all the antiquity of the abbey; the fourth side of the quadrangle having, on account of its decaying state, been reeneral's father, and the present erected in its place All that was venerable ceased here The new building was not only new, but declared itself to be so; intended only for offices, and enclosed behind by stable-yards, no uniforht necessary Catherine could have raved at the hand which had swept ahat must have been beyond the value of all the rest, for the purposes of ly have been spared the eneral allowed it; but if he had a vanity, it was in the arrangement of his offices; and as he was convinced that, to a mind like Miss Morland's, a view of the accommodations and comforts, by which the labours of her inferiors were softened, y for leading her on They took a slight survey of all; and Catherine was impressed, beyond her expectation, by their multiplicity and their convenience The purposes for which a few shapeless pantries and a comfortless scullery were deemed sufficient at Fullerton, were here carried on in appropriate divisions, commodious and roo did not strike her less than the nuirl stopped to curtsy, or some footman in dishabille sneaked off Yet this was an abbey! How inexpressibly different in these doements from such as she had read about--froer than Northanger, all the dirty work of the house was to be done by two pair of feh it all had often amazed Mrs Allen; and, when Catherine saas necessary here, she began to be amazed herself