Three years ago we discovered
one in the same place, which the barber slew with a trowel.
"Our proposed removal to Mr. Small's was, as you suppose, a jest, or
rather a joco-serious matter. We never looked upon it as entirely
feasible, yet we saw in it something so like practicability, that we
did not esteem it altogether unworthy of our attention. It was one of
those projects which people of lively imaginations play with, and
admire for a few days, and then break in pieces. Lady Austen returned
on Thursday from London, where she spent the last fortnight, and
whither she was called by an unexpected opportunity to dispose of the
remainder of her lease. She has now, therefore, no longer any
connexion with the great city, she has none on earth whom she calls
friends but us, and no house but at Olney. Her abode is to be at the
vicarage, where she has hired as much room as she wants, which she will
embellish with her own furniture, and which she will occupy, as soon as
the minister's wife has produced another child, which is expected to
make its entry in October.
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