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Yes, she decided it was, for after all if she found nothing to suit us at Middlemead she would have to set off on her travels again to house-hunt somewhere else. It would be penny wise and pound foolish to save that fly. Mr.
She told it me so often that I seem to know all about it just as if I had been with her, instead of being a stupid, helpless little baby left behind with my nurse Kezia was my nurse then while poor granny had to go travelling all about, house-hunting by herself! What made her first think of Middlemead she has never been able to remember.
Indeed, one could scarcely fancy a 'Windy Gap Cottage' anything but fresh and airy, could one? I was never tired of hearing the story of the day that grandmamma first came to Middlemead to look for a house.
'I don't fancy Middlemead is the sort of place where one need fear burglars, and besides, she went on with a little smile, 'we should not have much of value to steal. The silver plate that I have I shall leave for the most part in London. But in case of sudden illness or any alarm of that kind, I should not like to be out of reach of everybody.
For though Middlemead is scarcely more than a village it is much in repute for its healthiness, and the rents are rising. 'What are the rents of the smallest of the houses you speak of? grandmamma asked. 'Forty pounds is the cheapest, Mr. Timbs answered, 'and the situation of that is not so good. Rather low and chilly in winter, and somewhat lonely.
So very likely it was as she thought just the hearing how splendidly healthy the place was that made her travel down to Middlemead in those early spring days, that first sad year after mamma's death, to look for a nest for her little fledgling.
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