"
"Then, my dear young lady, you would confer a great favour on me if
you would allow Mr. Belamour and myself to escort you to Delavie and
show us these papers. I fear it may be alarming and distressing."
"Oh no, sir, I know no harm can happen to me where Mr. Belamour is,"
she said, smiling.
"It may be very important," he said, and she went to put on her hood.
"Surely," said Mr. Wayland, "the title-deeds cannot have been left
there?"
"No. The title-deeds to the main body of the property are at
Hargrave's. I have seen them, at the time of my brother's marriage;
but still this may be what was wanting."
"Yet the sending this child to search is presumption that no such
document existed."
"Of course no one supposed it did," said Mr. Wayland, on the defence
again.
Aurelia was quickly ready in her little hood and kerchief, and trim
high-heeled shoes. She was greatly surprised to find how near she
had been to her friends during these last few days of her captivity,
and when Madge obeyed the summons to the door, the old woman
absolutely smiled to see her safe, and the little terrier danced
about her in such transports that she begged to take him back with
her.
She opened the door of the little empty book room, where nothing
stood except the old bureau.
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