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Alice, or The Mysteries

CHAPTER III
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_Rod_.

How sweet these solitary places are! ......
_Ped_.

What strange musick Was that we heard afar off?
_Curio_.

We've told you what he is, what time we've sought him, His nature and his name.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

_The Pilgrim_.
ONE day, as the ladies were seated in Mrs.Merton's morning-room, Evelyn, who had been stationed by the window hearing the little Cecilia go through the French verbs, and had just finished that agreeable task, exclaimed,-- "Do tell me to whom that old house belongs, with the picturesque gable-end and Gothic turrets, there, just peeping through the trees,--I have always forgot to ask you." "Oh, my dear Miss Cameron," said Mrs.Merton, "that is Burleigh; have you not been there?
How stupid in Caroline not to show it to you! It is one of the lions of the place.


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