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Read in the Wunder reader — freeQ. For what purpose did he come?
A. To look over the grounds. I was going to make some alterations in my little garden, and also about other work that I had in hand.
Q. What other work do you mean?
A. Work I had for Miss Johnstone, No. 18, Great Cumberland-street; work I had in hand; I furnished all her house.
Lord Ellenborough. Mr. Cochrane Johnstone?
A. Yes.
Mr. Richardson. You were furnishing Mr. Johnstone's house at that time?
A. A house for Miss Johnstone.
Q. Did you see him again in the course of that same day?
A. Between eight and nine in the evening.
Q. Did he call again at your house in York-street?
A. Yes.
Q. About what time was it?
A. It was between eight and nine; I did not take particular notice of the time, not expecting there would be any question about it; we were all sitting in the parlour, and Mr. De Berenger knocked at the door, and I let him in, and he walked in, and while I was handing a chair to him to sit down, he said I will not disturb your good company, and he said he would walk into the back; and he did, and he staid about a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes.
Q. Did you walk back together?
A. Only into the parlour; in the morning, we were, I dare say, an hour together in the garden.
Q. Did you go into the garden in the evening?
A. We did not.
Q. What was the purpose of his calling in the evening?
A. Merely to answer the purpose of the morning, we meant to do something in the garden; he said he would call if he came that way in the evening, to tell me when he would draw a plan for the work I was going to do in the garden; I was going to build a room there.
Q. He was to draw a plan?
A. Yes.
Q. In the evening he called about the same business?
A. Yes.
Q. Was any further answer to be given to him?
A. This was the business; I was going to turn the front part of my house into an inn, and to make the back part of my house into pleasure grounds.
Q. And you had consulted him about the mode of doing it?
A. Yes, I had; Mr. De Berenger told me he could make out a handsome plan for me.
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