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am too busy eating the holy cakes, Jessie," said Edwin: "your sister is a master in her art."

      "I say," Jessie went on, "are you ever dull at home? When I told Bessie that you had come she was surprised, and said that you must surely be dull at home. I am sorry for you if you are: you should come here oftener—we are never dull here."

      "Perhaps," said Edwin, "your sister thinks I come too often, as it is."

      Bessie was so deeply engaged pressing Mr. Parker to eat strawberry jam, with cheeks the color of the fruit, that of course she could not have heard what her sister had been saying.

      "Oh no, I don't think she thinks that at all," Jessie said: "we never think any one can come too often. Bessie, can Mr. Forrester come too often?"

      But still Miss Ormiston was so occupied with Mr. Parker that she did not hear.

      And Mrs. Parker said, "It is a most intensely interesting old place, this: do not people come to look at it?"

      "Oh yes," replied Bessie, "especially in summer: we generally have several parties every week. One of the servants takes them over the castle—grand people often, with carriages and livery servants."

      "Do you not keep a book for them to write their names in?"