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"So you never wore your copy?"

"No I wanted to have it altered to ly; so I put it away, and have it in a box still"

"He -headed old fellow," I remarked

"Yes; he was very tenacious He annoyedunnecessary alterations in the house in Queen Square when he fitted up his ard to that house Our people have lived in it ever since it was built, when the square was first laid out in the reign of Queen Anne, after whom the square was named It is a dear old house Would you like to see it? We are quite near it now"

I assented eagerly If it had been a coal-shed or a fried-fish shop I would still have visited it with pleasure, for the sake of prolonging our walk; but I was also really interested in this old house as a part of the background of the ham

We crossed into Cosmo Place, with its quaint row of the, now rare, cannon-shaped iron posts, and passing through stood for a fewinto the peaceful, stately old square A party of boys disported theuard round the ancient lanified repose suited to its age and station And very pleasant it looked on this sue of its wide-spreading plane trees and lighting up the warm-toned brick of the house-fronts We walked slowly down the shady west side, near the middle of which my coloohtful house in the days when h the open end of the square across the fields and ate"

She stood at the edge of the pave up with a curious wistfulness at the old house; a very pathetic figure, I thought, with her handsoloves, standing at the threshold of the hoenerations, that should now have been hers, and that was shortly to pass away into the hands of strangers

I, too, looked up at it with a strange interest, i in its aspect The ere shuttered fron of life was visible Silent, neglected, desolate, it breathed an air of tragedy It seemed to mourn in sackcloth and ashes for its lost master The massive door within the splendid carven portico was crusted with grime, and seemed to have passed out of use as couishers wherein the foothailded chair, in the days of good Queen Anne