The new portion was to stand in front of the old, and was to
consist of a wide entrance-hall, with a large dining and
drawing-room upon either side. Upon the floor above were to be four
bedrooms. The old sitting-room was to be made into the kitchen, and
was to be lighted by a skylight in the roof. The present kitchen
was to become a laundry, the windows of that and the bedroom
opposite being placed in the side walls, instead of being in front.
The new portion was to be made of properly baked bricks, and was to
be surrounded by a wide veranda. Of the present bedrooms, two were
to be used as spare rooms, one of the others being devoted to two
additional indoor servants whom it was now proposed to keep.
It was arranged that the carts should at once commence going
backward and forward to Rosario, to fetch coal for the brickmaking,
tiles, wood, etc., and that an experienced brickmaker should be
engaged, all the hands at the farm being fully occupied. It would
take a month or six weeks, it was calculated, before all would be
ready to begin building; and then Mrs. Hardy and the girls were to
start for a long promised visit to their friends the Thompsons,
near Buenos Ayres, so as to be away during the mess and confusion
of the building. An engagement was made on the following week with
two Italian women at Rosario, the one as a cook, the other as
general servant, Sarah undertaking the management of the dairy
during her mistress' absence.
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