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She began, and told e tale, which, likewise, I

cannot recollect; but which, at every turn and every pause, sohts upon her extre that had a relation, revealed or hidden, but

always operative, with her own loveliness I lay entranced It was a

tale which brings back a feeling as of snows and te, and ht to close up the whole I listened till she and I

were blended with the tale; till she and I were the whole history And

we had reenery, while the su round us heavy with love, and the odours that crept through the

silence frons of an outer world

that invaded our solitude What followed I cannot clearly re horror alrey dawn stole

into the cave The damsel had disappeared; but in the shrubbery, at the

e horrible object It looked like an

open coffin set up on one end; only that the part for the head and

neck was defined froh

representation of the hu