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glass to his lips; but as the apparition approached, he laid it down

again, untasted, and stared at it in the wildest surprise and intensest

curiosity Truly, it was a singular-looking creature, not to say a

rather startling one A dwarf of soh, and at least five

feet broad across the shoulders, with iht His immense skull was set on such a trifle of a

neck as to be scarcely worth arnished by a violent

mat of coarse, black hair, which also overran the territory of his

cheeks and chin, leaving no neutral ground but his two fiery eyes and

a broken nose all twisted awry On a pair of short, stout legs he wore

immense jack-boots, his Herculean shoulders and chest were adorned with

a leathern doublet, and in the belt round his waist were conspicuously

stuck a pair of pistols and a dagger Altogether, a entleman of his inches it would have been hard to find in all

broad England Stopping deliberately before Sir Noruttural voice, addressed hiht--for such I perceive you are--you are anxious to know

so of that old ruin yonder?"

"Well," said Sir Nor from his surprise as to be

able to speak, "suppose I aainst it, my

little friend?"