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A few moments later our poet found himself in a tiny arched chamber, very cosy, very war better than to ood bed in prospect, and alone with a pretty girl The adventure san seriously to take hie in a fairy tale; he cast his eyes about hih to see if the chariot of fire, harnessed to tinged chimeras, which alone could have so rapidly transported him from Tartarus to Paradise, were still there At times, also, he fixed his eyes obstinately upon the holes in his doublet, in order to cling to reality, and not lose the ground froinary space, now hung only by this thread

The young girl did not appear to pay any attention to hioat, and indulged in a pout now and then At last she caoire was able to scrutinize her at his ease

You have been a child, reader, and you would, perhaps, be very happy to be one still It is quite certain that you have not, more than once (and for my part, I have passed whole days, the best employed of my life, at it) followed fro water, on a sunny day, a beautiful green or blue dragon-fly, breaking its flight in abrupt angles, and kissing the tips of all the branches You recollect hat aaze were riveted upon this little ind, hissing and hus of purple and azure, in the midst of which floated an imperceptible body, veiled by the very rapidity of itswhich was dis, appeared to you chiinary, ith, the dragon-fly alighted on the tip of a reed, and, holding your breath the while, you were able to exalobes of crystal, what astonishain behold the form disappear into a shade, and the creature into a chimera! Recall these ioire felt on conte, beneath her visible and palpable forht a gli, and tumult