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For some days my companion-shadow had been less obtrusive than usual;

and such was the reaction of spirits occasioned by the sih besides to be glooht and comparatively happy My impression is, that she was quite

aware of the law of appearances that existed between the people of the

place and myself, and had resolved to a, after so and raillery, she, somehow or other,

provoked me to attempt to kiss her But she ell defended from

any assault of the kind

Her countenance became, of a sudden, absurdly

hideous; the pretty ated and otherwise amplified

sufficiently to have allowed of six simultaneous kisses I started back

in bewildered dishter, and

ran from the rooe

operated between ers; and that, to feel I was

in pleasant company, it was absolutely necessary for ht focal distance between myself and each one hoh Whether, when I

happened to neglect this precaution, I presented to them an equally

ridiculous appearance, I did not ascertain; but I presu parties I was likewise

unable to determine whether I was a necessary party to the production of

this strange transforiven circumstances, between the inhabitants themselves