"I hope they won't pull it down," she said; "I'm extremely fond of it." "I don't see what makes you fond of it; your father died here." "Yes; but I don't dislike it for that," the girl rather strangely returned.

"I like places in which things have happened--even if they're sad things.

A great many people have died here; the place has been full of life." "Is that what you call being full of life ?" "I mean full of experience--of people's feelings and sorrows.

And not of their sorrows only, for I've been very happy here as a child." "You should go to Florence if you like houses in which things have happened--especially deaths.

I live in an old palace in which three people have been murdered; three that were known and I don't know how many more besides." "In an old palace ?" Isabel repeated.
"Yes, my dear; a very different affair from this.