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Then looking up as if to find a place for them-"Why, Ere

drawing-room!"

"Did not you mean it, when you took the very proportions of the bay

, and chose just such a carpet?"

"But what have you done to it?"

"Ailie and Rose, and Lady Te on, and suggesting Old things that we kept packed up have

seen the light, and your beautiful Indian curiosities have found their

corners"

"And the rooeraniuht half their greenhouse down Do

you reather a leaf of

whenever you passed our old conservatory?"

"I have been wondering where the fragrance came fro like it since!"

"I said that I wished for one, and Grace got off without a word, and

searched everywhere at Avoncester till she found one in a corner of the

Dean's greenhouse There, now you have a leaf in your fingers, I think

you do feel at home"

"Not quite, Ermine It still has the dizziness of a dream I have so

often conjured up all this as a vision, that now there is nothing to

take me away fro Tibbie and the poor little Lord upstairs are

substantial witnesses to the cares and troubles of real life"