Page:The Princess Casamassima (London and New York, Macmillan & Co., 1886), Volume 1.djvu/127

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VII
THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA
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unknown person gave a singular laugh, and said, 'Oh, I brought some candles; we could have had a light if we had wished it.' Both the tone and the purport of the words announced to Hyacinth that they proceeded from the lips of Lady Aurora.