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Rh asked a price considerably above the market value, but Mrs. Eddy paid it, declaring that mesmerism was again at work, trying to keep her out of her own, and that she would have the property at any price. Dr. Foster was sent back to Commonwealth Avenue to pack her furniture and move it out to Roslindale. The new house was scarcely settled when Mrs. Eddy, believing that her neighbours were mesmerised, went back to Concord. Here she lived again at No. 62 State Street, until she moved into the house which she named Pleasant View, and in which she lived until January, 1908.

In retiring to Concord, Mrs. Eddy had no idea of loosing her hold upon Christian Science, or of resigning her leadership. It is very doubtful if, when she went away in the spring of 1889, she meant to leave Boston for good. After that date she made alterations in her Commonwealth Avenue house, and the fact that she had the walls of her own room there pulled out and interlined with a substance which would deaden sound and make the room absolutely quiet, seems to indicate that she intended to return there to live. But in going from Boston, Mrs. Eddy was acting, as always, upon the urgent need of the moment. For the present it was imperative that she should be free from the hot-bed of mesmerism in Boston, both for her own peace of mind, and in order to do what was before her; and although her retirement to Concord proved most fortunate in its general results, Mrs. Eddy, in going, was probably not concerned at the moment with anything but her own security and convenience. It was apparently not until she had left the city and had become more inaccessible to her students and followers, that she realised how greatly her administrative