My local informant tells me that
you have kept back a certain amount of your father's furniture in
order to take lodgings elsewhere. As this will now be unnecessary I
hope that you will sell the rest. Haverton House is sufficiently
furnished, and we should not be able to find room for any more
furniture. I suggest your coming to us next Friday. It will be
easiest for you to take the fast train up to Paddington when you
will be able to catch the 6.45 to Slowbridge arriving at 7.15. We
usually dine at 7.30, but on Friday dinner will be at 8 p.m. in
order to give you plenty of time. Helen sends her love. She would
have written also, but I assured her that one letter was enough,
and that a very long one.
Your affectionate brother-in-law,
Henry Lidderdale.
Mrs. Lidderdale would no doubt have criticized this letter more sharply
if she had not regarded it as inspired, almost actually written by the
hand of God. Whatever in it was displeasing to her she accepted as the
Divine decree, and if anybody had pointed out the inconsistency of some
of the opinions therein expressed with its Divine authorship, she would
have dismissed the objection as made by somebody who was incapable of
comprehending the mysterious action of God.
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