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, no one took any notice of young Henry Esmond, who sat alone in the
book-room until his new friends found him. When my lord and lady were
going away from the book-room, the little girl, still holding him by the
hand, bade him come too. "Thou wilt always forsake an old friend for a
new one, Trix," says her father good-naturedly, and went into the
gallery, giving an arm to his lady. They passed thence through the
music-gallery, long since dismantled, and Queen Elizabeth's rooms, in
the clock-tower, and out into the terrace, where was a fine prospect of
sunset and the great darkling woods with a cloud of rooks returning, and
the plain and river with Castlewood village beyond, and purple hills
beautiful to look at; and the little heir of Castlewood, a child of two
years old, was already here on the terrace in his nurse's arms, from
whom he ran across the grass instantly he perceived his mother, and came
to her. "If thou canst not be happy here," says my lord, looking round
at the scene, "thou art hard to please, Rachel." "I am happy where you
are," she said, lovingly; and then my lord began to describe what was
before them to his wife, and what indeed little Harry knew better than
he--viz., the history of the house: how by yonder gate the page ran away
with the heiress of Castlewood, by which the estate came into the
present family; how the Roundheads attacked the clock-tower, whic