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'What a dise

penetrated the deeper recesses of the woods 'Surely, my lord, you do

not ht to

bring hither a cup of the waters of Lethe, that the rehten, at least, the natural dreariness of

these' 'I shall be governed by circumstances, madam,' said the Count, 'this

barbarous spot was inhabited by e now stopped at the chateau, where, at the door of the great

hall, appeared the old steward and the Parisian servants, who had been

sent to prepare the chateau, waiting to receive their lord Lady Blanche

now perceived, that the edifice was not built entirely in the gothic

style, but that it had additions of a looothic,

and suuish, hung

upon the walls, and depictured scenes froothic , elantine,

that ascended to the south, led the eye, now that the caseh this verdant shade, over a sloping lawn, to the

tops of dark woods, that hung upon the brow of the promontory Beyond,

appeared the waters of the Mediterranean, stretching far to the south,