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article; she informed me it was a covering for the altar of a new church lately erected near Gateshead。 Two hours she devoted to her diary; two to working by herself in the kitchen…garden; and one to the regulation of her accounts。 She seemed to want no pany; no conversation。 I believe she was happy in her way: this routine sufficed for her; and nothing annoyed her so much as the occurrence of any incident which forced her to vary its clockwork regularity。

She told me one evening; when more disposed to be municative than usual; that John’s conduct; and the threatened ruin of the family; had been a source of profound affliction to her: but she had now; she said; settled her mind; and formed her resolution。 Her own fortune she had taken care to secure; and when her mother died—and it was wholly improbable; she tranquilly remarked; that she should either recover or linger long—she would execute a long…cherished project: seek a retirement where punctual habits would be permanently secured from disturbance; and place safe barriers between herself and a frivolous world。 I asked if Georgiana would acpany her。

“Of course not。 Georgiana and she had nothing in mon: they never had had。 She would not be burdened with her society for any consideration。 Georgiana should take her own course; and she; Eliza; would take hers。”

Georgiana; when not unburdening her heart to me; spent most of her time in lying on the sofa; fretting about the dulness of the house; and wishing over and over again that her aunt Gibson would send her an invitation up to town。 “It would be so much better;” she said; “if she could only get out of the way for a month or two; till all was over。” I did not ask what she meant by “all being over;” but I suppose she referred to the expected dec

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