text:  The manner of living had been resumed again with the difference that on the days the young maidens did not visit the noble mansion the honourable viscount was as it were domiciled in the parsonage; and I perceived that by this arrangement the great lady was highly pleased; perhaps because the presence of a kinsman a courageous gentleman gave her some security against the rudenesses she seemed to be afraid of on the part of her own son--a grievous state of human affairs when the fifth commandment is not held in honour and reducing us below the level of puppy-dogs and kittens to whom that commandment along with the rest of the decalogue is totally unknown