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Fern’s Hollow

CHAPTER XXIII
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And now I want you to take my advice into the bargain.

Jackson wants to come here, and offers a rent of L20 a year for the place.

Will you let him have it till you are old enough to manage it properly yourself, Stephen ?' 'Yes, if you please, sir,' replied Stephen, in some perplexity; for he and Martha had quite concluded that, they should come and live there again themselves.
'Jackson will make a tidy little farm of it for you,' continued Mr.
Lockwood.

'My daughter proposes taking Martha into her service, and putting her into the way of learning dairy-work, and many other things of which she is now ignorant.

Are you willing, Martha ?' 'Oh yes, sir!' said Martha, with a look of admiration at young Mrs.
Danesford.
'In this case, Stephen,' Mr.Lockwood went on, 'you will have a yearly income of L20, and we would like to hear what you will do with it ?' 'There's grandfather,' said Stephen diffidently.
'Right, my boy!' cried Mr.Lockwood, with a smile of satisfaction; 'well, Miss Anne thinks he would be very comfortable with Mrs.Thompson, and she would be glad of a little money with him.


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