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On the first floor there is a furnished chamber with a deep round niche, almost a separate room, like that in Queen Mary's apartments in Holy Rood. I reached Dublin late our train should have arrived at half-past six it was ten before we toiled into the station. The Dundellan carriage was waiting for me, and, after an hour's drive, I reached the house.
I beg your pardon for interrupting you," said the maiden aunt. "Well, term-time was drawing near, and Bantry Bay was getting pretty cold, when I received an invitation from Lady Garryowen to stay with them at Dundellan on my way south. They were two very dear, old, hospitable Irish ladies, the last of their race, Lady Garryowen and her sister, Miss Patty.
They were so hospitable that, though I did not know it, Dundellan was quite full when I reached it, overflowing with young people. The house has nothing very remarkable about it: a grey, plain building, with remains of the chateau about it, and a high park wall. In the garden wall there is a small round tower, just like those in the precinct wall at St. Andrews. The ground floor is not used.
"When I arrived the house was so full that there was literally no room for me. But 'Dundellan was never beaten yet, the old ladies had said. There was still the room in the tower.
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