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She was very plain and coly Looking up in my face with a stupid sneer, she said:

"Isn't it a pity you haven't a pretty girl to walk all alone with

you through this sweet country? How different everything would look?

wouldn't it? Strange that one can never have what one would like best!

How the roses would bloom and all that, even in this infernal hole!

wouldn't they, Anodos? Her eyes would light up the old cave, wouldn't

they?"

"That depends on who the pretty girl should be," replied I

"Not so very much o away as I gave h unsightly bud ht suddenly blossom into the h a shapeless cloud,

and transfigures the earth; so burst a face of resplendent beauty, as it

were THROUGH the unsightly visage of the woh it A su slumberous landscape, looked froreat rock beside ht

"Stay with

full in rated upon ly wo hazel eyes

"You shall have your reward," said she "You shall see your white lady

again"

"That lies not with you," I replied, and turned and left her

She followed hter, as I went on h there was always light enough to see

my path and a few yards on every side of me, I never could find out the

source of this sad sepulchral illumination