Sunday, October 14, 2007

the last supper

the last supper square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet. In answer to
my inquiries after the use of this article, she informed me it was a
covering for the altar of a new church lately erected near
Gateshead. Two hours she devoted to her diary; two to working by
herself in the kitchen-garden; and one to the regulation of her
accounts. She seemed to want no company; no conversation. I believe
she was happy in her way: this routine sufficed for her; and nothing
annoyed her so much as the occurrence of any incident which forced her
to vary its clockwork regularity
the last supper
She told me one evening, when more disposed to be communicative
than usual, that John's conduct, and the threatened ruin of the
family, had been a source of profound affliction to her: but she had
now, she said, settled her mind, and formed her resolution. Her own
fortune she had taken care to secure; and when her mother died- and it
was wholly improbable, she tranquilly remarked, that she should either
recover or linger long- she would execute a long-cherished project:
seek a retirement where punctual habits would be permanently secured
from disturbance, and place safe barriers between herself and a
frivolous world. I asked if Georgiana would accompany her.
'Of course not. Georgiana and she had nothing in common: they never the last supper

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"the last supper"

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"the last supper"

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"the last supper"

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"the last supper"