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be the regulator and confidant of all their joys and hopes. She saw
herself again listening, amid her sums, for the welcome voice that would
call her away; she saw herself again examining its grave face and
striving to calculate, with childish eagerness, if she would have time
to build another Tower of Babel or put another tack in the doll's frock
before the ruthless iron tongue struck the fatal hour.

'Olive, is it possible you don't remember how we used to listen to the
dear old clock when we were children?'

'You are a funny girl, Alice; you remember everything. Fancy thinking of
that old clock! I hated it, for it brought me to lessons when it struck
eleven.'

'Yes, but it brought you out to play when it struck twelve. See! the
hands are just on the hour; let us wait to hear it strike.'

The girls listened vainly for a sound; and Alice felt as if she had been
apprised of the loss of a tried friend when one of the servants told
them the clock had been broken some years ago.

The kitchen windows looked on a street made by a line of buildings
parallel with the house. These were the stables and outhouses, and they
formed one of the walls of the garden that lay behind, sheltered on the
north side by a thin curtain of beeches, filled every evening with noisy
rooks; and, coming round to the front of the house, the girls lingered
beneath the chestnut-trees, and in the rosary, where a little fountain
played when visitors were present, and then stood leaning over the
wooden paling that defended the pleasure-ground from the cows that
grazed in the generous expanse of grass extending up to the trees of the
Lawler domain. Brookfield was therefore without pretensions--it could
hardly be called 'a place'--but, manifolded in dreams past and present,
it extended indefinitely before Alice's eyes, and, absorbed by the sad
sweetness of retrospection, she lingered while Olive ran through the
rosary from the stables and back again, calling to her sister, making
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