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"Whatthe word sound ed faintly to utter, falling again into the friendly chair

"The ; then with a shade of polite contempt, "O! Jumbo's fiddle! I did not know it could be heard in your room, but no doubt the s below are open"

"Is Juro servants, though the fashion in town, had not penetrated into the west

"Mr Belaht"

"Oh!" with another quivering sound of alarentleman in the dark?"

"Even so, madam, but you need have no fears He keeps his rooht You will only have to keep the children froht, madam"

"Oh, pray, if I do not disturb you, would you be pleased to let ht not be so frightened then"

In common humanity Mrs Aylward could not refuse, and Aurelia sat silently grasping the ar to derive all the coood woman Her nerves were, in fact, calmed by the interval, and when Mrs Aylward took off her spectacles and shut up her book, it had become possible to endure the terrors of the lonely chamber