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Don't breathe a syllable of this to anybody unless necessity arises. Don't tell Mary." Sir Walter beckoned the footman, bade him get some tools and ascend quickly to the Grey Room. He then went up beside his nephew, while Fred, bristling with excitement, hastened to the toolroom. He was a handy man, had been at sea during the war, and now returned to his old employment.
A forty-dollar set of harness hung there: Carter's harness had chains instead of leather tugs, and would outwear them several times over. It was an orderly toolroom: the bridles occupied a row over the collars, hames and back-bands came next, and on the other side of the room, on six-inch spikes, hung extra clevises, buckles, straps, and such materials as accidents to farm machinery required.
Farnshaw had wastefully let his machinery rot and his stock perish from cold, but here was wastefulness of another sort; Elizabeth speculated on the cost of this barn and thought of the interest to be paid. On her way to the cow-stable where the little mother whose calf had fallen a victim to the cold awaited her, she thought of the toolroom where she had gone for her feed.
A. Court. B. Kitchen. C-F. Baths. H. Stable. J. Toolroom. K, L, V, V. Bedrooms. N. Dining Room. M. Anteroom. O. Bakery. P. Room with two winepresses. Q. Corridor. B. Court for fermentation of wine. S. Barn. T. Threshing-floor. Y. Room with oil press. Their stalls ought to be not less than ten nor more than fifteen feet wide, and long enough to allow not less than seven feet for each yoke.