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The old Castello, as the people called it, ill-agreed with the noble edifices she was wont to call castles in her earlier days no lofty battlements crested with clouds; no drawbridges swung on ponderous chains; no mysterious keeps haunted with traditionary horrors; no myriads of archers in gold and blue to rend the heavens with a mighty shout of welcome.
An elderly man approached the steps, and reverently uncovering his gray locks, essayed to explain the matter. "None, Madam," said he, "have dwelt in this house these fifteen years agone, no, not since the death of old Colonel Fenwicke, whose funeral you may remember to have followed. His heirs being ill-agreed among themselves, have let the mansion-house go to ruin."
An elderly man approached the steps, and, reverently uncovering his gray locks, essayed to explain the matter. "None, madam," said he, "have dwelt in this house these fifteen years agone no, not since the death of old Colonel Fenwicke, whose funeral you may remember to have followed. His heirs, being ill-agreed among themselves, have let the mansion-house go to ruin."
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