“So here we are, installed in this beautiful old house, and from both my bedroom and the drawing-room I can see the great elms of the cathedral close, with their great black stems standing out against the old yellow stone of the cathedral and I can hear the rooks overhead cawing and cawing and chattering and gossiping all day, after the manner of rooks⁠—and humans. I am busy, I need not tell you, arranging things and housekeeping. Jonathan and

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Hawkins are busy all day; for, now that Jonathan is a partner,

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