Vol.1 f.020 recto

[???????]but because you have often heard me say so -- was then a much
larger and better place, and a much more valuable [????????]property than it
is now. His lady who died in child[???] about a year before was [?????????] dead
was lately dead, and he was left with one child -- the [???????]Miss Haredale you have been asking
inquiring about -- who was then scarcely a year old."
although Solomon the speaker addressed himself to the man who had
displayed shewn so much [????] curiosity about this same family, and made a pause here as if expecting some exclamation of surprise or encouragement, the
latter was not covetous [??????] made no remark nor gave any indi-
cation that he heard or was interested in what was said. Solomon
therefore turned to his old companions, whose noses were brightly illuminated by the deep red glow from the bowls of their pipes; assured, by long experience, of their attention, and resolved to show his sense of such indecent behaviour.
" Mr Haredale," said Solomon, turning his back upon the strange man, "left this place when his lady died, feeling it lonely like, and went up to London, where he stopped some months; but finding that place as lonely as this -- as I suppose and have always heard say -- he suddenly came back again with his little girl to the Warren, bringing with him besides, that day, only two women servants, and his steward, and a gardener."
Mr Daisy stopped to take a whiff at his pipe, which was going out, and then proceeded -- at first in a snuffling tone, occasioned by keen enjoyment of the tobacco and strong pulling at the pipe, and afterwards with increasing