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found that it proceeded from what looked like silver letters upon a door

of ebony; and, to my surprise even in the home of wonder itself, the

letters forh I had as

yet no right to the honours of a knight, I ventured to conclude that

the cha the door without

hesitation, I entered Any doubt as to whether I was right in so doing,

was soon dispelled What to ht, burst

upon e pieces of sos of silver, was burning on the hearth, and a bright lamp stood on a

table, in themy arrival

But what surprised me more than all, was, that the room was in every

respect a copy of my own room, the room whence the little stream from my

basin had led rass and

ned; the curtains of pale blue

silk, that fell like a cataract over the s; the old-fashioned bed,

with the chintz furniture, on which I had slept from boyhood "Now I

shall sleep," I said to myself "My shadow dares not come here"