The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit 12 Final Chapter Free Kids' Audiobook Children's Library.
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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman chapter 12.

it would be interesting no doubt to describe the feelings of lord yalding as he followed mabel and jimmy through his ancestral halls but i have no means of knowing at all what he felt yet one must suppose that he felt something bewilderment perhaps mixed with a faint wonder and a desire to pinch himself to see if he were dreaming or he may have pondered the rival questions am i mad are they mad without being at all able to decide which he ought to try to answer let alone deciding what in either case the answer ought to be you see the children did seem to believe in the odd stories they told and the wish had come true and the ghost had appeared he must have thought but all this is vain i don't really know what he thought any more than you do nor can i give you any clue to the thoughts and feelings of mademoiselle i only know that she was very happy but anyone would have known that if they had seen her face perhaps this is as good a moment as any to explain that when her guardian had put her in a convent so that she should not sacrifice her fortune by marrying a poor lord her guardian had secured that fortune to himself by going off with it to south america then having no money left mademoiselle had to work for it so she went out as governess and took the situation she did take because it was near lord yalding's home she wanted to see him even though she thought he had forsaken her and did not love her anymore and now she had seen him i dare say she thought about some of these things as she went along through his house her hand held in his but of course i can't be sure

jimmy's thoughts of course i can read like any old book he thought now he'll have to believe me that lord yalding should believe him had become quite unreasonably the most important thing in the world to jimmy he wished that gerald and kathleen were there to share his triumph but they were helping mabel's aunt to cover the grand furniture up and so were out of what followed not that they missed much for when mabel proudly said now you'll see and the others came close round her in the little paneled room there was a pause and then nothing happened at all

there's a secret spring here somewhere said mabel fumbling with fingers that had suddenly grown hot and damp where said lord yalding here said mabel impatiently only i can't find it and she couldn't she found the spring of the secret panel under the window all right but that seemed to everyone dull compared with the jewels that everyone had pictured and two at least had seen but the spring that made the oak panelling slide away and displayed jewels plainly to any eye worth a king's ransom this could not be found more it was simply not there there could be no doubt of that every inch of the paneling was felt by careful fingers the earnest protests of mabel and jimmy died away presently in a silence made painful by the hotness of one's ears the discomfort of not liking to meet anyone's eyes and the resentful feeling that the spring was not behaving in at all a sportsman-like way and that in a word this was not cricket you see said lord yalding severely now you've had your joke if you call it a joke and i've had enough of the whole silly business give me the ring it's mine i suppose since you say you found it somewhere here and don't let's hear another word about all this rubbish of magic and enchantments gerald's got the ring said mabel miserably then go and fetch him said lord yalding both of you the melancholy pair retired and lord yalding spent the time of their absence in explaining to mademoiselle how very unimportant jewels were compared...