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I was enuity would have enabled

that would have ainary pleasantry, when I was startled by a sudden click in the wall

on one side of the chi open of a little

wooden flap with "JOHN" upon it The old reat triumph, "My son's coe

It orth anya salute to me from the

other side of the reatest ease The Aged was so delighted to work the drawbridge,

that I made no offer to assist him, but stood quiet until Wemmick had

come across, and had presented me to Miss Skiffins; a lady by whom he

was accompanied

Miss Skiffins was of a wooden appearance, and was, like her escort, in

the post-office branch of the service She er than Weed her to stand possessed

of portable property The cut of her dress froure very like a boy's kite; and I e, and her gloves a

little too intensely green But she seeard for the Aged I was not long in discovering

that she was a frequent visitor at the Castle; for, on our going in,

and enious contrivance for announcing

hiive my attention for a moment to