“Indeed   t alone eit knoions for all t bedrooms to be prepared; and to be cleaned out; I am to get more kitc Millcote, and from s: so o commence operations.

    told, busy enoug all t tifully clean and  it appears I aken. t to  and beating of carpets, sucaking doting up of pictures, sucres, sucing of fires in bedrooms, sucs and feate  of it: tions for company and t of to to ecstasies. So look over all oilettes,” as so furbis o air and arrange t caper about in t ceads, and lie on ttresses and piled-up bolsters and pilloies sed: Mrs. Fairfax o oreroom, o make custards and cry, to truss game and garnis-dishes.

    ty ed to arrive on ternoon, in time for dinner at six. During tervening period I ime to nurse cive and gay as anybody—Adèle excepted. Still, noo my ce of myself, ts and portents, and dark conjectures. to see torey staircase door (o te apron, and c tread muffled in a list slipper; ling, topsy-turvy bedrooms,—just say a  to polise, or clean a marble mantelpiece, or take stains from papered o tc e pipe on t of porter e solace, in . Only one y-four did ss belo of ime  in some lo and sewed—and probably laugo herself,—as companionless as a prisoner in his dungeon.

    trangest t not a soul in t me, noticed s, or seemed to marvel at tion or employment; no one pitied ude or isolation. I once, indeed, over of a dialogue between Lea. Lea caughe charwoman remarked—

    “Ss good wages, I guess?”

    “Yes,” said Lea t mine are to complain of,—tinginess at t t