[The Squire of Sandal-Side by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr]@TWC D-Link bookThe Squire of Sandal-Side CHAPTER XI 28/58
Also," and he laid another paper down, "you are hereby restrained from removing, injuring, or in any way changing, or disposing of, the present furniture of the Seat.
The squire insists specially on this direction, and he kindly allows you seven days to remove your private effects.
A very reasonable gentleman is Squire Sandal." Without further courtesies they parted; and the deposed squire locked the room-door, lifted the various documents, and read them with every sense he had.
Then he went to Sophia; and at that hour he was almost angry with her, although he could not have told how, or why, such a feeling existed.
When he opened the door of the parlor, her first words were a worry over the non-arrival, by mail, of some floss-silks, needful in the bird's-nest she was working for a fire-screen. "They have not come, Julius," she cried, with a face full of inquiry and annoyance. "They? Who ?" "The flosses for my bird's-nest.
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