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At this hour stir and bustle pervaded the interior of Winterborne's

domicile froh

tea for six o'clock or thereabouts, and a good roaring supper to co habits, the whole

of the preparations devolved upon himself and his trustythat required doing, fro moles in his field He was a survival

from the days when Giles's father held the ho boy

These tith a certain dilatoriousness which appertained to both,

were now in the heat of preparation in the bake-house, expecting nobody

before six o'clock Winterborne was standing before the brick oven in

his shirt-sleeves, tossing in thorn sprays, and stirring about the

blazing ed Beelzebub kind of fork,

the heat shining out upon his strea his eyes like

furnaces, the thorns crackling and sputtering; while Creedle, having

ranged the pastry dishes in a row on the table till the oven should be

ready, was pressing out the crust of a final apple-pie with a

rolling-pin A great pot boiled on the fire, and through the open door

of the back kitchen a boy was seen seated on the fender, e the candlesticks, a row of the latter standing

upside down on the hob to rease