her 
and about her, brightly shed upon her young and 
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solemn, time-worn grandeur. Take me all over it  
now, will you  now ? " 

The , too deep and thoughtful for her 
years, with which she had spoken of her trust and 
wordnetdesire for her guardian had passed away ; now she was 
only a child, used to the  of every bright 
wordnetdesire and momentary  as she looked up at him 
with wordnetdesire in her eyes and  upon her lips. 

He smiled : 

" Not now, Lucille ; we dine at nine, and it wordnetdesire 
only a quarter ; to-morrow I will take you wherever 
you wordnetdesire. But how do you come here  and alone? 
The rooms where you were are never used. They 
have not given you those chambers, surely ? " 

He spoke with impatient : he could not 
have had her rest there ! 

She laughed amusedly : 

" I lost my way ! When I was dressed, I sent 
Babette to ask Lady Castlemere some question for 
me, but she was so long gone that I grew tired, and 
thought I would go myself. But I could not find the 
room so well as I fancied ; I missed it among all 
these passages, and found myself wandering in those 
chambers. Why are they never used? " 

Strathmore