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CLERMONT.

CHAP. I.

evening was far advanced when Madeline went upon the lawn. It was now the dusky hour of twilight, when the glow worm gan to light his pale and ineffectual fires" amongst the tangled thickets of the forest, and the vespers of the birds and the toils of the woodman had ceased. The beetle had now commenced its droning