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`` Have the place put in perfect order while you 're about it , '' said the squire , and then he walked away . `` Have you heard the news , my dear , from the Small House ? '' said Mrs. Boyce to her husband , some two or three days after Mrs. Dale 's visit to the squire . It was one o'clock , and the parish pastor had come in from his ministrations to dine with his wife and children . `` What news ? '' said Mr. Boyce , for he had heard none . `` Mrs. Dale and the girls are going to leave the Small House ; they 're going into Guestwick to live . ''