Her very nature seemed to have changed too -- all her joyousness and light-heartedness were dead . From that time she was a faded , dispirited creature , no more like the Eliza we had known than the merest stranger . And then after a while came other news -- Willis Starr was married to the other Eliza Laurance , the true heiress . He had made no second mistake . We tried to keep it from Eliza but she found it out at last . That was the day she came up here alone and packed this old chest . Nobody ever knew just what she put into it . But you and I see now , Amy -- her ball dress , her wedding gown , her love letters and , more than all else , her youth and happiness -- this old chest was the tomb of it all . Eliza Laurance was really buried here . `` She went home soon after . Before she went she exacted a promise from Mother that the old chest should be left at the Grange unopened until she came for it herself . But she never came back , and I do not think she ever intended to , and I never saw her again . `` That is the story of the old chest . It was all over so long ago -- the heartbreak and the misery -- but it all seems to come back to me now . Poor Eliza ! '' My own eyes were full of tears as Aunt Winnifred went down the stairs , leaving me sitting dreamily there in the sunset light , with the old yellowed bridal veil across my lap and the portrait of Eliza Laurance in my hand . Around me were the relics of her pitiful story -- the old , oft-repeated story of a faithless love and a woman 's broken heart -- the gown she had worn , the slippers in which she had danced light-heartedly at her betrothal ball , her fan , her pearls , her gloves -- and it somehow seemed to me as if I were living in those old years myself , as if the love and happiness , the betrayal and pain were part of my own life . Presently Aunt Winnifred came back through the twilight shadows . `` Let us put all these things back in their grave , Amy , '' she said . `` They are of no use to anyone now .
The linen might be bleached and used , I dare say -- but it would seem XXXXX a sacrilege .
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