The Picture Gallery Explored, Or an Account of Various Ancient Customs and Manners: Interspersed with Anecdotes and Biographical Sketches of Eminent Persons (Classic Reprint)

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I cannot think what can induce mamma to visit him just now, answered Susan: he is such an oddity, I hear, and lives so very te tired. Mary Morgan told me, (and Mary knows him well, ) that he rarely goes into par ties; and she laughed immoderately, when she said that the heavy little windows, and massy doors of the old mansion, always reminded her of a monastery; and, for her part, she thought it would be better to turn it into one, people it with monks, and make Mr. Wilmot superior of.

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