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 about a fortnight ago, have never failed repairing to it every evening at sun-set, attracted thither by an irresistible impulse.'

"I am sorry (said I), your visits were at last so unfortunately terminated; your present accident is, I suppose, to be imputed to them."—His reply was 'Yes'; he had wandered unheeding whither he went, into a wrong path, extremely rugged, where, his foot slipping, he fell from the top to the bottom of the hill. His spirits seemed low, (continued Clermont); so I rallied my own to endeavour to raise them.

"There is I believe (said I) some spell, in that castle which allures, or rather draws, people thither, whether they will or no; I have a little girl who is always gadding to it, in defiance of all the ghosts, hobgoblins, and fairies, which, according to the account of the villagers, continually haunt it."

Madeline felt her cheek glow; and, withdrawing her eyes from her father, she