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When Lord Fauntleroy wakened in the morning, -- he had not wakened at all when he had been carried to bed the night before, -- the first sounds he was conscious of were the crackling of a wood fire and the murmur of voices.
"You will be careful, Dawson, not to say anything about it," he heard some one say. "He does not know why she is not to be with him, and the reason is to be kept from him."