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Ha we pass'd through, not without ularities; butnot

That which hter came to look upon,

The state of her e, that all this time I had heard no music in the

fairy palace I was convinced there must be music in it, but that my

sense was as yet too gross to receive the influence of those et sound Soures of which I got such transitory glilided

into vacancy beforeto the law of music;

and, in fact, several times I fancied for aI knew not whence But they did not last long

enough to convince me that I had heard them with the bodily sense Such

as they were, however, they took strange liberties withme

to burst suddenly into tears, of which there was no presence toht,

which, passing as suddenly, left , before I had been a week in the palace, I was

wandering through one lighted arcade and corridor after another At

length I arrived, through a door that closed behind me, in another vast

hall of the palace It was filled with a subdued criht; by

which I saw that slender pillars of black, built close to walls of white

into innuent arches, supported a roof, like the walls, of white marble,

upon which the arches intersected intricately, for of

black upon the white, like the network of a skeleton-leaf The floor was