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in every partition wall. She don't definitely 

 understand, I think, why a person should 

 thwack his head in a closet under the stairs. 



She sometimes (our carpenter tells us) insists 

 upon putting a window through a chimney; 

 and on one occasion (it was really a very 

 pretty plan) contrived so as to conduct a 

 chimney through the middle of the best bed 

 room; and the nicest scheme of all, to my 

 thinking, positively had the stairs left out 

 entirely. 



In this dilemma, I want you to tell us what 

 can be done with the old shell, so as to make 

 it passably habitable, until we find out if this 

 new passion for country life is to hold good." 



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