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CHAPTER I
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The servants, little used in that family to sudden resolutions and unexpected orders, were awkward and confused in obeying directions.

They ran from room to room unnecessarily, and lost time and patience in jostling each other on the stairs.

If a stranger had entered the house that day, he might have imagined that an unexpected disaster had happened in it, instead of an unexpected necessity for a journey to London.

Nothing proceeded in its ordinary routine.

Magdalen, who was accustomed to pass the morning at the piano, wandered restlessly about the staircases and passages, and in and out of doors when there were glimpses of fine weather.


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