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Lady Blanche, it being not yet dark, took this opportunity of exploring

new scenes, and, leaving the parlour, she passed froallery, whose walls were decorated by marble pilasters, which

supported an arched roof, coh a

distant , that seeallery, were seen the

purple clouds of evening and a landscape, whose features, thinly veiled

in twilight, no longer appeared distinctly, but, blended into one grand

mass, stretched to the horizon, coloured only with a tint of solemn

grey

The gallery terh an open door, belonged; but the increasing dusk permitted her

only an inificent

and of h it had been either suffered to fall

into decay, or had never been properly finished The hich were

nue, descended low, and afforded a very extensive, and

what Blanche's fancy represented to be, a very lovely prospect; and

she stood for soinary woods and ht; her solemn sensations rather assisted, than interrupted, by the