"
"Where were you then?"
"I was at the cottage where I now live." Edward turned round to
Patience, and perceived that her eyes were fixed upon him, as if she
would have read his thoughts. Edward smiled, and said--
"Do you doubt what I say?"
"No, indeed!" said she, "I have no doubt that you were at the cottage
at the time; but I was thinking that if the apartments at Arnwood were
more splendid, those at your cottage are less comfortable. You have
been used to better and to worse, and therefore will, I trust, be
content with these."
"I trust I have shown no signs of discontent. I should indeed be
difficult to please if an apartment like this did not suit me.
Besides, allow me to observe, that although I stated that the
apartments at Arnwood were on a grander scale, I never said that I had
ever been a possessor of one of them."
Patience smiled and made no reply.
"Now that you know your way to your apartment, Master Armitage, we
will, if you please, go back to the sitting-room," said she. As they
were going back into the sitting-room, she said--
"When you come over on Monday, you will, I presume, bring your clothes
in a cart? I ask it, because I promised some flowers and other things
to your sisters, which I can send back by the cart.
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