Though quite familiar with its contents, she read it here as if it spoke aloud to her, then called up Mrs.Hooper, the landlady, for some trivial service, and inquired again about the young man.
'Well, I'm sure you'd be interested in him, ma'am, if you could see him, only he's so shy that I don't suppose you will.' Mrs.Hooper seemed nothing loth to minister to her tenant's curiosity about her predecessor.
'Lived here long?
Yes, nearly two years.

He keeps on his rooms even when he's not here: the soft air of this place suits his chest, and he likes to be able to come back at any time.

He is mostly writing or reading, and doesn't see many people, though, for the matter of that, he is such a good, kind young fellow that folks would only be too glad to be friendly with him if they knew him.

You don't meet kind-hearted people every day.' 'Ah, he's kind-hearted.

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