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Nothing stands out to me more distinctly, with its pleasures and pains, than the visit to Erymanth Castle from our arrival in the dark the lighted hall the servants meeting us the Australians' bewilderment at being ushered up to our rooms without a greeting from the host my lingering to give a last injunction in Eustace's ear, "Now, Eustace, I won't have Harold's hair greased; and put as little stuff as you can persuade yourself to do on your pocket-handkerchief" orders I had kept to the last to make them more emphatic; then dashing after the housekeeper, leaving them to work my great room, where it was a perfect journey from the fire to the toilet-table my black lace dress, and the silver ornaments those dear nephews had brought me from London and in the midst of my hair-doing dear little Viola's running in to me in one of her ecstacies, hugging me, to the detriment of Colman's fabric and her own, and then dancing round and round me in her pretty white cloudy tulle, looped up with snowdrops.
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