? ? ? ? "Do you mean that your wife and you wish to leave?"
? ? ? ? "Only when it is quite convenient to you, sir."
? ? ? ? "But your family have been with us for several generations, have they not? I should be sorry to begin my life here by breaking an old family connection."
? ? ? ? I seemed to discern some signs of emotion upon the butler's white face.
? ? ? ? "I feel that also, sir, and so does my wife. But to tell the truth, sir, we were both very much attached to Sir Charles and his death gave us a shock and made these surroundings very painful to us. I fear that we shall never again be easy in our minds at Baskerville Hall."
? ? ? ? "But what do you intend to do?"
? ? ? ? "I have no doubt, sir, that we shall succeed in establishing ourselves in some business. Sir Charles's generosity has given us the means to do so. And now, sir, perhaps I had best show you to your rooms."
? ? ? ? A square balustraded gallery ran round the top of the old hall, approached by a double stair. From this central point two long corridors extended the whole length of the building, from which all the bedrooms opened.
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