[The Claverings by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Claverings CHAPTER V 10/31
Not that there is any secret; but it is about him and his last moments, and it would only pain you." Harry longed to read the whole, but he did as he was bid, and began the letter at the spot which Lady Clavering marked for him with her finger. "I have to start on the third, and as I shall stay nowhere except to sleep at Turin and Paris, I shall be home by the eighth--I think on the evening of the eighth.
I shall bring only my own maid, and one of his men who desires to come back with me.
I wish to have apartments taken for me in London.
I suppose Hugh will do as much as this for me." "I am quite sure Hugh won't," said Lady Clavering, who was watching his eye as he read. Harry said nothing, but went on reading.
"I shall only want two sitting-rooms and two bedrooms--one for myself and one for Clara--and should like to have them somewhere near Piccadilly--in Clarges street, or about there.
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