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There I found that it communicated with a circular corridor, divided

from it only by ts of red colu statues, ran entirely about the statue-halls,

for a communication between the further ends of theards the central hall of white whence they all diverged

like radii, finding their circumference in the corridor

Round this corridor I noent, entering all the halls, of which there

were twelve, and finding them all similarly constructed, but filled with

quite various statues, of what seemed both ancient and h the for rest, and went toclose by one of the curtains, I was

suddenly seized with the desire to enter, and darted in This time I was

too quick for theer,

butfroled in the convolutions of a coh them to the further end, I al part in the dance with the others, nor

see in idity upon a black pedestal in the extreme left corner-- froazed in speechless astonish froradually hid her entirely from my view I felt with a shudder

that this shadoas perchancedemon, whom I had not seen for

days I aith a stifled cry