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Tuesday at midday
Thanks to Tussie 's efforts more furniture had been got from Minehead . Tussie had gone in himself , after a skilful questioning of Fritzing had made him realize how little had been ordered , and had , with Fritzing 's permission , put the whole thing into the hands of a Minehead firm . Thus there was a bed for Annalise and sheets for everybody , and the place was as decent as it could be made in the time . It was so tiny that it got done , after a great deal of urging from Tussie , by the Tuesday at midday , and Tussie himself had superintended the storing of wood in the coal-hole and the lighting of the fire that was to warm his divine lady and that Ill Luck found so comforting to her toes . The Shuttleworth horses had a busy time on the Friday , Saturday , and Monday , trotting up and down between Symford and Minehead ; and the Shuttleworth servants and tenants , not being more blind than other people , saw very well that their Augustus had lost his heart to the lady from nowhere . As for Lady Shuttleworth , she only smiled a rueful smile and stroked her poor Tussie 's hair in silence when , having murmured something about the horses being tired , he reproved her by telling her that it was everybody 's duty to do what they could for strangers in difficulties . Priscilla 's side of Creeper Cottage was the end abutting on the churchyard , and her parlour had one latticed window looking south down the village street , and one looking west opening directly on to the churchyard .