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finch !” cried Miss Terry. How that httle creature whistled, to be sure! Just as

though its very life depended on the number and purity of its notes.

“He pipes all dayv,” Prince’s mistress said, running her fingers along the brass wires of the “and we don't quite know what the tunce i1s. When I bought him he was mmoa little wooden cage, and on 1t were written in penetl the names of two songs Du bist wie cine Blume,” and- what do you think?-- Poli Bakins! But he's never whistled of My Pretty l()lly Perkins of Paddington Green’ to this day.

The (lm\\mg-ro()m overlooks the gardens,

cage,

and 1s fragrant with the pcrllnm? of the roses which fill the china bowls on the Wasae 2 From F'hoto. by) tables. A huge bouquet of carnations is just

beginning to fade- strewn on the carpet.

few fallen petals are But 1t will rest there tll 1t drops. Tt was a gift from Sarah Jernhardt. Tables are sct out with silver trinkets, and a cabincet 1s crowded with blue china. The music of “ Henry the Fighth 7 1s open on the prano—on top of which 15 an o1l painting of a corner of the kitchen of the “Audrey” Arms, at Uxbridge. Miss Terry saw this quaint, old-fashioned little place, ancd wanted 1t. A difficulty had to be over- come, for 1t was an inn. The place was bought, and an old woman was cmploved to sell the beer, and for some time Miss Terry spent her hoh(llys m the rooms pertainimg to the old “ Audrey ” Arms, previous to her sctthng at W inchelsea.

A beautiful specimen of the orginal) out-

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of-date, square piano is here, but still delight- ful m tone, 1t having ree ultI\ heen comyp restored l)) Messrs. Broadwood. 1t the name of Longman and Broderip - the atter name bemg very similar to that of Mr. Irving’s birth name. It was picked up at Decal. "The old firm of Longman and Broderip has been continued through Clementi to Messrs, Collard, who still retain the old Cheapside premises, whenee this pretty old pano came nearly a hundred Vs ago.

The case of curtos must not he foreotten, Amongst other things, 1t contains a pair of old gold buckles which belonged to o Cavalier who was hidden in the oak tree with Charles 1.5 Mrs. Siddons’s Bible, with a letter in

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her own handwriting 5 a tiara which was once owned by the famous Lady Blessington @ a hittle blue china cup of Sir Walter Se otts and surely the damtiest and tiniest of lace handkerchiefs Sarah Bernhardt's. Dut what gave rise Lo most (mlmltv were a number of

pairs of cve-glasses. T owas holding in my hand a pair with the name of ““Henry 7 written on one glass and “Irving” on the other. Then

[ learnt that Miss "Terry has a rare collection of famous men’s glasses, amongst them being

Mr. Whistler’s, Do Mackenzic’s, Sir Arthur Sullivan’s, and others. I'rom the time 1 Taid down these eve

classes and bade Miss Terry “ Good-bye,” to the day T arrived at the httle Sussex of Winchelsea and heard her “Welcome,: was Just two months. It was on one of the days just before her return to town and