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'It is just what I have wished, though I did not dream of suggesting it after what I have heard you say.
I am going to stay with her again to-morrow, and I will let her know about this.' 'Don't tell her anything plainly, for heaven's sake.
I really want to see the interior of the castle; I have never entered its walls since my babyhood.' He raised his eyes as he spoke to where the walls in question showed their ashlar faces over the trees. 'You might have gone over it at any time.' 'O yes.
It is only recently that I have thought much of the place: I feel now that I should like to examine the old building thoroughly, since it was for so many generations associated with our fortunes, especially as most of the old furniture is still there.
My sedulous avoidance hitherto of all relating to our family vicissitudes has been, I own, stupid conduct for an intelligent being; but impossible grapes are always sour, and I have unconsciously adopted Radical notions to obliterate disappointed hereditary instincts.
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