407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
The History of Literature
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Miss Fernville, the Elder Sister, Was Handsomer Than Miss Grace
The great old rambling house was a famous place for little Miss Rosamund. She made expeditions all over it with me at her heels, all except the east wing, which was never opened. As winter drew on, and the day's grew shorter, I was sometimes almost certain that I heard a noise, as if someone were playing on the great organ in the hall. Then I used to hear it booming and swelling away in the distance. The first night when I went down to my supper, I asked Dorothy who had been playing music, and James said very shortly that I was a gawk to take the wind's song among the trees. So I held my question till I
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