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      Thus they recalled the happiness, the security of those summer days;
& old Maggie unwoundwinding her string of memories, of the
 safe
 summer
 days glibly, jovially
from the centre there his- that90 kitchen, where Mildred would be, her bustling in
. the warm sunny91
 room a good natured woman, but fiery like all sandy a red haired girl,
or woman rather, Mrs. Ramsay in & out of the kitchen, but liked
well enough by the maids; or always & always they kept a
plate of milk soup for Maggie, why there were sometimes
more than twenty in the house Mrs [?]- But M92rs. Bast had
.without profit from
 in its splendour,

no unfixedsuch rooted in no such soil, wondered how they came to havethey had such
that beasts skull came there; shot in foreign parts no doubt - &
Maggie had [?]no [?] (the shawl had been folded & put away in
the drawer) & Maggie would wanton with the wantoning as
with her wandering tales of Eastern gentry coming from the Indies,
Mrs. Bast all sorts of company coming in those days, &
She once seeing them, through the door hinge all at dinner
ladies & gentlemen,they would be washing up till midnight, flowers, [?] courses,   all in
their finery, Mrs. Bast, said thought it out not in reason that
they should expect to find the place as they left it, seeing that
the a lawn soon grows over if you leave it - & only
Mr. old David and Fr came, & he with his, (getting up &
 hailing looking at the
 sea man Fred m with
 his sythe in the
 garden)93 & he stopped when his
leg got bad after the fall in the cart, &perhaps then no one came, -
then seeds might be sent but who should say if they were
planted?
        B They knew, both wh the way some things had gone -of them, some stories things - they could tellsay : some
storiesbut & say them they did leaning in the window sill
so they joked hinted, (Mrs. Bast bored enough with the old
loose tongued doddering creature, but glad of her weeks
work at the house now that the work was scarcer,)
      George s Fred she ha She hailed& Fred stopped
his looked up at them, staying his the sy sy scythe,

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