Excerpt from The Etchingham Letters

("I was surprised, M'm, and so was Grace and Mrs. Baker, that Trelawney did not catch the Major's eye at the station; set off so, as he was too, by his blue riband, and the cat looking for notice," was Blake's comment on the platform episode - the episode not of defective vision, but of cutting dead.)

Please, Richard, learn one lesson that no man ever learnt yet - learn that a woman does not of necessity enjoy all that she endures with patience, nor welcome every ill she tolerates. The hammering and the hugger-mugger, the upset and upside-down condition of everything that I have striven to suffer, if not gladly, heroically, Harry evidently believes to be welcome as the flowers of May to his sister. "Elizabeth likes a disturbance - all women do," he says with a touch of irritation, as he seeks, poor dear, among the chaos for his hat (upon which the furniture-removing people yesterday had thoughtfully placed the refrigerator). But was not this conclusion of Harry's a tribute to his sister's powers of self-control?

I hope our joint menage may prosper.

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