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larger household means more care, and a man-servant about the place is a
thing I could never abide. If you felt like taking sittings at Mr.
Thompson's as well as our own chapel, so that we could go there when we
felt we needed a change, I think I should like it sometimes. But it
seems a waste of good money with Sundays only coming once in seven
days."
Mr. Bullsom shook with good-humoured laughter.
"Mother, mother," he said, "we shall never smarten you up, shall we,
girls? Now, what do you say, Selina?"
"I should like a country house quite ten on fifteen miles away from
here, lots of horses and carriages, and a house in town for the season,"
Selina declared, boldly.
"And you, Louise?"
"I should like what Selina has said."
Mr. Bullsom looked a little grave.
"The house in London," he said, "you shall have, whether I buy it or
only hire it for a few months at a time. If we haven't friends up
there, there are always the theatres and music-halls, and lots going on.
But a country house is a bit different. I thought of building a place
up at Nicholson's Corner, where the trains stop.
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