I Had Not Felt
Inclined To Gratify Him, As I Had Found Him A Young Man Of A
Too Active
Mind whose only desire was to capture some person
to talk to and unfold his original ideas and schemes, but
Now
having come to the house I thought I would suffer him, and
soon found him at work in the vast old walled garden. He
joyfully threw down his spade and let me in and then up to the
top floor, determined that I should see everything. By the
time we got down to the ground floor I was pretty tired of
empty rooms, oak panelled, and passages and oak staircases,
and of talk, and impatient to get away. But no, I had not
seen the housekeeper's room - I must see that! - and so into
another great vacant room I was dragged, and to keep me as
long as possible in that last room he began unlocking and
flinging open all the old oak cupboards and presses. Glancing
round at the long array of empty shelves, I noticed a small
brown-paper parcel, thick with dust, in a corner, and as it
was the only movable thing I had seen in that vacant house I
asked him what the parcel contained. Books, he replied - they
had been left as of no value when the house was cleared of
furniture. As I wished to see the books he undid the parcel;
it contained forty copies of a small quarto-shaped book of
sonnets, with the late squire's name as author on the title
page.
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