-- I gave directions for the
funeral to be as private as was consistant with decency; I wrote
to London, that an inventory and estimate might be made of the
furniture and effects in his town-house, and gave notice to the
landlord, that Mr Baynard should quit the premises at Lady-day; I
set a person at work to take account of every thing in the
country-house, including horses, carriages, and harness; I
settled the young gentleman at a boarding-school, kept by a
clergyman in the neighbourhood, and thither he went without
reluctance, as soon as he knew that he was to be troubled no more
with his tutor, whom we dismissed. The aunt continued very
sullen, and never appeared at table, though Mr Baynard payed his
respects to her every day in her own chamber; there also she held
conferences with the waiting-women and other servants of the
family: but, the moment her niece was interred, she went away in
a post-chaise prepared for that purpose: she did not leave the
house, however, without giving Mr Baynard to understand, that the
wardrobe of her niece was the perquisite of her woman;
accordingly that worthless drab received all the clothes, laces,
and linen of her deceased mistress, to the value of five hundred
pounds, at a moderate computation.
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