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As it is , we shall clear out with credit , and start afresh gloriously . By the bye , do n't get any but Applegarth 's jams in future . '' `` That depends , '' said Jane laughing , `` if we like them . '' In their simple and wholesome way of living , the Warburtons of course dined at midday , and Will , who rarely ate without appetite , surpassed himself as trencherman ; nowhere had food such a savour for him as under this roof . The homemade bread and home-grown vegetables he was never tired of praising ; such fragrant and toothsome loaves , he loudly protested , were to be eaten nowhere else in England . He began to talk of his holiday abroad , when all at once his countenance fell , his lips closed ; in the pleasure of being `` at home , '' he had forgotten all about Norbert Franks , and very unwelcome were the thoughts which attached themselves to this recollection of his days at Trient . `` What 's the matter ? ''