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It will be three days , I suppose , before Lionel , having joined his new regiment at * * * * , can be here . And then it will be weeks yet , I believe , before his regiment sails ; and I 'm all for short courtships . '' CHAPTER VI . Waife hears it at noon from his window . Hark ! Sophy has found song once more . She is seated on a garden bench , looking across the lake towards the gloomy old Manor-house and the tall spectre palace beside it .