I have noticed the same thing now and again with family pictures, and the way they are taken for granted by the family.

If you will let me examine them with you it will be delightful!" It was a joy to me to hear her talk in such a way; and her last suggestion quite thrilled me.

Together we went round the various rooms and passages, examining and admiring the magnificent curios.

There was such a bewildering amount and variety of objects that we could only glance at most of them; but as we went along we arranged that we should take them seriatim, day by day, and examine them more closely.

In the hall was a sort of big frame of floriated steel work which Margaret said her father used for lifting the heavy stone lids of the sarcophagi.