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Aunt Betsy has her idiosyncrasies, and one of them is a liking for beauty in individuals, as well as in chairs and tables and cups and saucers. You will see that all her servants are pretty. She picks them for their good looks, I believe, and trains them afterwards. She would not have so much as a bad-looking stable boy.'

It is not of his house, but of himself, that a man grows weary.

Mary Elizabeth helps me to go on in spite of the heat. I love her and her books. She's better than Wilkie Collins.