in the vault I'm pretty confident is not the case. Curious now that I shouldn’t be in a position to inform you on that heading! Still, after all, we can’t say, can we, Mr. Humphreys, that it’s a point of crucial importance where the pore mortal coils are bestowed?”
At this point they entered the house, and Cooper’s speculations were interrupted.
Tea was laid in the library, where Mr: Cooper fell upon subjects appropriate to the scene. “A fine collection of books! One of the finest, I've understood from connoisseurs, in this part of the county; splendid plates, too, in some of these works. I recollect your uncle showing me one with views of foreign towns—most absorbing it was : got up in first-rate style. And another all done by hand, with the ink as fresh as if it had been laid on yesterday, and yet, he told me, it was the work of some old monk hundreds of years back. I've always taken a keen interest in literature myself. Hardly anything to my mind can compare with a good hour’s reading after a hard day’s work; far better than wasting the whole evening at a friend’s
