"Use your eyes, and let your tongues, poor things, rest for a little." They got on very happily.

Aunty managed to show the children the special picture or pictures each had most wanted to see--including the "beautiful blue and orange" one of Molly's recollection.

She nearly screamed with delight when she saw "how like it was to the one in papa's study," but took in good part Ralph's cynical observation that a thing that was copied from another was generally supposed to be "like" the original.
Only Sylvia was a little disappointed when, after looking at the pictures in one of the smaller rooms--a room in no way peculiar or remarkable as differing from the others--they suddenly discovered that they were in the famous "Salle Henri II.," where Henry the Fourth was killed! "I didn't think it would be like this," said Sylvia lugubriously.

"Why do they call it 'Salle Henri II. ?' It should be called after Henry the Fourth; and I don't think it should have pictures in, and be just like a common room." "What would you have it?
Hung round with black and tapers burning ?" said her aunt.
"I don't know--any way I thought it would have had old tapestry," said Sylvia.

"I should like it to have been kept just the way it was then." "Poor Sylvia!" said grandmother.