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30 Anthony? Surely she ought to rule, at least, the little world around it, just as she had ruled the little world of which Burley House was the centre.

But the main circumstance of the two small worlds were widely different Jonathan Burley was an autocrat in his mill, and that power satisfied his ambition. He was very willing to resign all domestic power to the women who had charge of his home. On the contrary, Aske had no such outlet. His fine hall, his staff of servants, his farmers and tenants, were his business in life. He would not resign any of his authority over them. Eleanor soon found that if her orders agreed with the squires they were attended to; if not; her husband set them absolutely aside. She tried anger, sulking, tears; but if her way was not her husband's way, she never succeeded in getting it. Squire Anthony was not a man who would give in to an unreasonable woman, and whenever Eleanor's desires did not agree with his desires, he considered her unreasonable. In half a year a definite point had been reached. The squire announced his intentions; if his wife approved them he was