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 kind of way, and that it would be very hard upon Mrs. Chance, who was probably slaving at home to bring up the ‘Miss Chances’ in a decent manner, and he was very reasonable and gave up Sookie, and has made it a rule that Jimhoa is to be always with him.

We had company at dinner.

Sunday, May 1. One of the clergy accosted me when I went into the breakfast-room this morning with, ‘Pray, Miss Eden, are you aware that your motties are at work this morning?’ ‘I am very much shocked,’ said I; ‘but who are my motties?’ (I thought of you at the time.) ‘Why, the gardeners,’ he said. I thought it safe to deny the fact, but unluckily they all began picking away with their pickaxes under the window, so that I said I would mention it to Lord Auckland when he came, and that he would speak to his motties forthwith; but the instant I mentioned it as a shocking fact, Captain, who reigns despotically here, said that of course they were at work, that they were more than half of each week absent at their own religious festivals, and that they