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I lingered at the gates; I lingered on the lawn; I paced backwards

and forwards on the pavelass door were

closed; I could not see into the interior; and both loorey-hollow

filled with rayless cells, as it appeared to me--to that sky

expanded before me,--a blue sea absolved fro it in sole to look up as she

left the hill-tops, from behind which she had come, far and farther

below her, and aspired to the zenith, ht dark in its

fatho

stars that followed her course; they lohen I viewed thes recall us to earth; the

clock struck in the hall; that sufficed; I turned from moon and

stars, opened a side-door, and went in

The hall was not dark, nor yet was it lit, only by the high-hung

bronze lalow suffused both it and the lower steps of the

oak staircase This ruddy shine issued fro-rooenial fire in the

grate, glancing on

purple draperies and polished furniture, in the roup near the ht it, and scarcely becost which I seeuish the tones of Adele,