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After near an hour's rowing, the party landed, and ascended a little

path, overgroith vegetation At a little distance from the point

of the eminence, within the shadowy recess of the woods, appeared

the pavilion, which Blanche perceived, as she caught a gliated marble As she

followed the Countess, she often turned her eyes with rapture towards

the ocean, seen beneath the dark foliage, far below, and from thence

upon the deep woods, whose silence and iloohtful

The pavilion had been prepared, as far as was possible, on a very short

notice, for the reception of its visitors; but the faded colours of

its painted walls and ceiling, and the decayed drapery of its once

lected, and

abandoned to the e seasons While the party partook

of a collation of fruit and coffee, the horns, placed in a distant part

of the woods, where an echo sweetened and prolonged their melancholy

tones, broke softly on the stillness of the scene This spot seemed to