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The rest and calm of that Sunday were a boon , coming as they did after a bustling week . All the ensuing days Phoebe was going about choosing curtains and carpets , or hiring servants for herself or Mervyn . She was obliged to act alone , for Miss Charlecote , on whom she had relied for aid , was engrossed in attending on Owen , and endeavouring to wile away the hours that hung heavily on one incapable of employment or even attention for more than a few minutes together . So constantly were Honor and Lucy engaged with him , that Phoebe hardly saw them morning , noon , or night ; and after being out for many hours , it generally fell to her lot to entertain the young Canadian for the chief part of the evening . Mr. Currie had arrived in town on the Monday , and came at once to see Owen . His lodgings were in the City , where he would be occupied for some time in more formally mapping out and reporting on the various lines proposed for the G. O. and S. line ; and finding how necessary young Randolf still was to the invalid , he willingly agreed to the proposal that while Miss Charlecote continued in London , the young man should continue to sleep and spend his evenings in Woolstone-lane . Have you seen but a bright lily grow , Before rude hands have touched it ?