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And then he is
always coming down upon me. It delights him to find me out in a
howler--makes him, in fact, quite good-tempered for twenty
minutes.
'As to the rest of the family, there is a charming boy and
girl--twins of nineteen, the boy just off to an artillery camp
after his cadet training; the girl extremely pretty and
distinguished, and so far inclined to think me an intruder and a
nuisance. How to get round her I don't exactly know, but I
daresay I shall manage it somehow. If she would only set up a
love-affair I could soon get the whip-hand of her!
'Then there is the priceless butler, with whom I have already
made friends. I seem to have a taste for butlers, though I've
never lived with one. He is fifty-two and a volunteer, in stark
opposition to the Squire, who jeers at him perpetually. Forest
takes it calmly, seems even in a queer way to be attached to his
queer master. But he never misses a drill for anybody or any
weather, and when he's out, the under-housemaid "buttles" for
him like a lamb.


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