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"So I think: you have no ghost, then?"

"None that I ever heard of," returned Mrs Fairfax, shost stories?"

"I believe not And yet it is said the Rochesters have been rather

a violent than a quiet race in their tih, that is

the reason they rest tranquilly in their graves now"

"Yes--'after life's fitful fever they sleep well,'" Inow, Mrs Fairfax?" for she wasaway

"On to the leads; will you come and see the view from thence?" I

followed still, up a very narrow staircase to the attics, and thence

by a ladder and through a trap-door to the roof of the hall I was

now on a level with the crow colony, and could see into their nests

Leaning over the battlerounds laid out like a rey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park,

dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a

path visibly overgrown, greener with ates, the road, the tranquil hills, all

reposing in the autumn day's sun; the horizon bounded by a

propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white No feature in the

scene was extraordinary, but all was pleasing When I turned from