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A Lady of Quality

CHAPTER XII--Which treats of the obsequies of my Lord of Dunstanwolde, of
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'Tis so long ago that 'tis ghostly.

Make ready the old red chambers for me," to her woman; "I will live there.

They have been long closed, and are worm-eaten and mouldy perchance; but a great fire will warm them.

And I will have furnishings from London to make them fit for habitation." The next day it seemed for a brief space as if she would have changed even from the red chambers.
"I did not know," she said, turning with a sudden movement from a side window, "that one might see the old rose garden from here.

I would not have taken the room had I guessed it.


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