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II6 LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY.

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fairly seated, he made two discoveries which pleased him: the first
that, across the church where he could look at her, his mother sat
. and smiled at him; the second, that at one end of the pew, against
the wall, knelt two quaint figures carven in stone, facing each other
as they kneeled on either side of a pillar supporting two stone
missals, their pointed hands folded as if in prayer, their dress very
antique and strange. On the tablet by them was written something
of which he could only read
the curious words:

‘Here lyeth ye bodye of
Gregorye Arthure Fyrst Earle
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his lordship, devoured by
curiosity.

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a few hundred years ago.”

‘“ Perhaps,” said Lord Fauntleroy, regarding them with respect,
" perhaps I got my spelling from them.” And then he proceeded
to find his place in the church service. When the music began, he
stood up and looked across at his mother, smiling. He was very
fond of music, and his mother and he often sang together, so he
joined in with the rest, his pure, sweet, high voice rising as clear as
the song of a bird. He quite forgot himself in his pleasure in it,
The Earl forgot himself a little too, as he sat in his curtain-shielded

corner of the pew and watched the boy. Cedric stood with the

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