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So they went off , saying that they must take direction of the Court to know whether she might stay here or not , and here she yet was . This made me sad , for all I knew of Chancery was that whatever it put hand on fell to ruin , as witness the Chancery Mills at Cerne , or the Chancery Wharf at Wareham ; and certainly it would take little enough to ruin the Manor House , for it was three parts in decay already . Thus we talked , and after that she put on a calico bonnet and picked me a dish of strawberries , staying to pull the finest , although the sun was beating down from mid-heaven , and brought me bread and meat from the house . Then she rolled up a shawl to make me a pillow , and bade me lie down on the seat that ran round the summer-house and get to sleep , for I had told her that I had walked all night , and must be back again at the cave come midnight She went back to the house , and that was the most sweet and peaceful sleep that ever I knew , for I was very tired , and had this thought to soothe me as I fell asleep -- that I had seen Grace , and that she was so kind to me . She was sitting beside me when I awoke and knitting a piece of work . The heat of the day was somewhat less , and she told me that it was past five o'clock by the sun-dial ; so I knew that I must go . She made me take a packet of victuals and a bottle of milk , and as she put it into my pocket the bottle struck on the butt of Maskew 's pistol , which I had in my bosom .