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Go along , now , and ask Crailey please to come at three this afternoon . '' This message from Mr. Gray 's betrothed was not all the ill-starred Tom conveyed to his friend . Mr. Vanrevel was ordinarily esteemed a person of great reserve and discretion ; nevertheless there was one man to whom he told everything , and from whom he had no secrets . He spent the noon hour in feeble attempts to describe to Crailey Gray the outward appearance of Miss Elizabeth Carewe ; how she ran like a young Diana ; what one felt upon hearing her voice ; and he presented in himself an example exhibiting something of the cost of looking in her eyes . His conversation was more or less incoherent , but the effect of it was complete . Chapter II . Surviving Evils of the Reign of Terror Does there exist an incredulous , or jealous , denizen of another portion of our country who , knowing that the room in the wooden cupola over Mr. Carewe 's library was commonly alluded to by Rouen as the `` Tower Chamber , '' will prove himself so sectionally prejudiced as to deny that the town was a veritable hotbed of literary interest , or that Sir ` Walter Scott was ill-appreciated there ?