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I always do over-drive her , but he does n't notice unless I am late . Good-bye , Muriel . It has done me good to talk to you . '' The Rector was shown into the library where the Squire was reading the _ Times _ , for which a groom rode over to Bathgate every morning at eleven o'clock , and woe betide him if he ever came back later than half-past twelve . It was a big room lined with books behind a brass lattice which nobody ever opened . Though the Squire used it every day , and had used it for five-and-thirty years , he had never altered its appointments , and his grandfather had not lived in it . Merchant Jack had furnished it handsomely for a library , and the Reverend John Clinton Smith , the historian of Kencote , had bought the books for him , and read most of them for him too .