The purposes for which a few shapeless pantries and a comfortless scullery were deemed sufficient at Fullerton, were here carried on in appropriate divisions, commodious and roomy. The number of servants continually appearing did not strike her less than the number of their offices. Wherever they went, some pattened girl stopped to curtsy, or some footman in deshabille sneaked off. Yet this was an abbey! How inexpressibly different in these domestic arrangements from such as she had read about⁠—from abbeys and castles, in which, though certainly larger than Northanger, all the dirty work of the house was to be done by two pair of female hands at the utmost. How they could get through it all had often amazed

Mrs. Allen; and, when Catherine saw what was necessary here, she began to be amazed herself.