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it, though it was not to shew her goodwill that she did it, but the contrary; for she still retained a grudge at me, for the affection I had expressed for Molly; and it was in this spirit that she laid out my work. As you have been at Hill Castle, you must remember the old tower, and that there are four rooms in it, one over the other to the top. The lowest of these rooms, that on the ground floor, with the iron-barred windows, was Jackson's own apartment, and where I likewise slept in a little press-bed. There could not, to be sure, be a more dismal-looking place; and indeed they said it had in the old times been used as a prison, and was said by all the servants to be haunted. But I had no leisure for thinking of such things; for, besides the quantity of needle- work which Mrs Jackson exacted from me, I had all the apartments of the tower from top to bottom committed to my care, and had to sweep and dust them, and to rub the furniture every day; so that in the
