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 careful of his house as you can have; and as to such alterations as I was suggesting just now, such as moving a Book case, or unlocking a door, or even as using the Billiard room for the space of a week without playing at Billiards in it, you might just as well suppose he would object to our sitting more in this room, and less in the breakfast room, than we did before he went away, or to my sister's piano forte being moved from one side of the room to the other.—Absolute nonsense!"

"The Innovation if not wrong as an Innovation, will be wrong as an expense."

"Yes, the expense of such an undertaking would be prodigious! Perhaps it might cost a whole Twenty pounds.—Something of a Theatre we must have undoubtedly, but it will be on the simplest plan;—a green curtain and a little carpenter's work—and that's all; and as the carpenter's work may be all done at home by Christopher Jackson VOL. I.