"This muddling style of house-keeping is what you've not lately been

used to, I suppose?" he said, when they were a little apart.

"No; but I like it; it reminds me so pleasantly that everything here in

dear old Hintock is just as it used to be. The oil is--not quite nice;

but everything else is."

"The oil?"

"On the chairs, I mean; because it gets on one's dress. Still, mine is

not a new one."

Giles found that Creedle, in his zeal to make things look bright, had

smeared the chairs with some greasy kind of furniture-polish, and

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refrained from rubbing it dry in order not to diminish the mirror-like

effect that the mixture produced as laid on. Giles apologized and

called Creedle; but he felt that the Fates were against him.




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