Austen Said:

"master nor mistress was at home;"

they had both been out some time;

they were gone to Hartfield.

it was all the apples of that sort his master had; he had brought them all—and now his master had not one left to bake or boil.

"Miss Fairfax was not well enough to write;"

I should not find his master at home,

He did not know what was come to his master lately,

but he could hardly ever get the speech of him.