He was unfortunate: he was mostly spoken of as "that unlucky boy."...

You know, I suppose, Mr.Somerset, why the paintings are in such a decaying state!--it is owing to the peculiar treatment of the castle during Mr.Wilkins's time.

He was blind; so one can imagine he did not appreciate such things as there are here.' 'The castle has been shut up, you mean ?' 'O yes, for many years.

But it will not be so again.

We are going to have the pictures cleaned, and the frames mended, and the old pieces of furniture put in their proper places.