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Her reverie was broken by Tantripp, who caed permission to see Madam if it were not too early

"I will see hi i-roo-room was the most neutral room in the house to her--the

one least associated with the trials of her married life: the daold; there were two

tallon them--in brief, it was a roo in one place rather than in

another It was below the boudoir, and had also a bo looking

out on the avenue But when Pratt showed Will Ladislaw into it the

as open; and a winged visitor, buzzing in and out now and then

withoutthe furniture, made the room look less forain, sir," said Pratt, lingering to adjust a

blind

"I aood-by, Pratt," said Will, ished even the

butler to know that he was too proud to hang about Mrs Casaubon now

she was a rich

"Very sorry to hear it, sir," said Pratt, retiring Of course, as a

servant as to be told nothing, he knew the fact of which Ladislaas still ignorant, and had drawn his inferences; indeed, had not