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favourite window in the drawing-room, it 

 appeared with its beautiful reflections, just 

 under the branches of that group of trees, 

 which the old rector and I so much regret. 

 Now, the trees, the bank, the path-way, 

 and the thickets, are all gone ; and you 

 see how they are replaced, by those 

 clumps, that naked building, and shaven 

 bank." 



" I do perceive," said Mr. Seymour, 

 ¥ that upon this point, you and Howard 

 are perfectly of the same mind, and I shall 

 not contend against 



* The Percy and the Douglas join'd together." 



indeed I myself should certainly have pre- 

 ferred the path-way, and all the accompa- 

 niments you have described, to the present 

 bare banks; but really you two, seem quite 

 worn down with this last part of our walk. 

 You bring to my mind a French novel* I 

 was lately reading, in which a fairy inflicts 

 a singular punishment on a young damsel, 

 of a lively, volatile disposition : she places 



* ]U Palais de la Verite, by Madame de Genlis. 



