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harmonious form, understand the whole of the

At length, one night, suddenly, when this feeling of dancing ca one of the cri

if, perchance, behind it there ht at least remove a step further the bewilderether disappointed I walked to one of the

nificent draperies, lifted a corner, and peeped in There, burned

a great, crih in the cubical centre of

another hall, which er or less than that in which I stood,

for its di that floor and roof

and walls were entirely of black e in

arches, as that of the first hall; only, here, the pillars and

arches were of dark red But what absorbed aze, was an

innumerable assembly of white marble statues, of every forhout These stood, in the

ruddy glow of the great laolden letters, plainly legible from where I stood, the

tords-TOUCH NOT!