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Enquire within upon everything
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Robert Kemp Philp
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One
morning,
Mrs.
H.
called
upon
me,
and
asked
me
to
take
a
walk,
saying
that
it
was
her
hobject
to
look
out
for
an
'ouse,
as
her
lease
had
nearly
terminated;
and
as
she
had
often
heard
her
dear
'Itching
say
that
he
would
like
to
settle
in
the
neighbourhood
of
'Ampstead
'Eath,
she
should
like
me
to
assist
her
by
my
judgment
in
the
choice
of
a
residence.
"I
shall
he
most
happy
to
accompany
you,"
I
said.
"I
knew
you
would,"
said
she;
"and
I
am
sure
a
hour
or
two
in
your
society
will
give
me
pleasure.
It's
so
long
since
we've
'ad
a
gossip.
Besides
which,
I
want
a
change
of
hair."
I
glanced
at
her
peruke,
and
for
a
moment
laboured
under
the
idea
that
she
intended
to
call
at
her
hairdresser's;
but
I
soon
recollected.
"I
suppose
we
had
better
take
the
homnibus,"
she
remarked,
"and
we
can
get
out
at
the
foot
of
the
'ill."
I
assented,
and
in
a
few
minutes
we
were
in
the
street,
in
the
line
of
the
omnibus,
and
one
of
those
vehicles
soon
appearing--
"Will
you
'ail
it?"
inquired
she.
So
I
hailed
it
at
once,
and
we
got
in.
Now
Mrs.
H.
was
so
fond
of
talking
that
the
presence
of
strangers
never
restrained
her--a
fact
which
I
have
often
had
occasion
to
regret.
She
was
no
sooner
within
the
omnibus
than
she
began
remarking
upon
hinconveaience
of
such
vehicles,
because
of
their
smallness,
and
the
hinsolence
of
many
of
the
conductors.
She
thought
that
the
proprietors
ought
only
to
'ire
men
upon
whose
civility
they
could
depend.
Then
she
launched
out
into
larger
topics--said
she
thought
that
the
Hemperor
of
Haustria--(here
I
endeavoured
to
interrupt
her
by
asking
whether
she
had
any
idea
of
the
part
of
Hampstead
she
would
like;
but
she
would
complete
her
remarks
by
saying)--must
be
as
'appy
as
the
days
are
long,
now
that
the
Hempress
had
presented
him
with
a
hare
to
the
throne!
(Some
of
the
passengers
smiled,
and
turning
round,
looked
out
of
the
windows.)
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