"My first aim will be to _clean down_ (do you comprehend the full force of the expression?)--to _clean down_ Moor House from chamber to cellar; my next to rub it up with bees-wax, oil, and an indefinite number of cloths, till it glitters again; my third, to arrange every chair, table, bed, carpet, with mathematical precision; afterwards I shall go near to ruin you in coals and peat to keep up good fires in every room; and lastly, the two days preceding that on which your sisters are expected will be devoted by Hannah and me to such a beating of eggs, sorting of currants, grating of spices, compounding of Christmas cakes, chopping up of materials for mince-pies, and solemnising of other culinary rites, as words can convey but an inadequate notion of to the uninitiated like you.
Az első és legfontosabb feladatom az lesz, hogy a maguk régi házát a pincétől a padlásig felforgassuk, és amúgy istenigazában nagytakarítást csináljunk. A szobákat be fogjuk ereszteni méhviasszal, aztán fényesre dörzsöljük: minden széket, minden asztalt, minden ágyat, minden szőnyeget matematikai pontossággal a helyére teszünk.