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"A spirit

The undulating and silent well,

And rippling rivulet, and evening gloo,

Held commune with him; as if he and it

Were all that was"

SHELLEY'S Alastor

I awoke onewith the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies

the return of consciousness As I lay and looked through the eastern

ofa cloud that

just rose above the loell of the horizon, announced the approach of

the sun As hts, which a deep and apparently dreaain to assu night presented the

consciousness The day before had beenother cerehts, the keys of an

old secretary, in which my father had kept his private papers, had been

delivered up to hts in the

chahts that had been there

for many a year; for, since my father's death, the room had been left

undisturbed

But, as if the darkness had been too long an inmate to