10/27 He wrote with a quill pen, and as it went up and down it scratched the paper as if it had been those sharp projecting finger-nails. The steward was usually in attendance. He was a commonplace man, but little above the description of a labourer. He received wages not much superior to those a labourer takes in summer time, but as he lived at the Home Farm (which was in hand) there were of course some perquisites. A slow, quiet man, of little or no education, he pottered about and looked after things in general. |