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Within the mirror of the past, How sadly fair arise The long-lost hues of early life, The stars of Memory's skies.".

needed but little preparation for their departure; it is your leave-takings that lengthen out the time—and they had scarcely a living creature to whom they needed say farewell. Guido obtained an audience of Mazarin, who seemed surprised, and even vexed, when he heard that they were about to cross the channel.

"What will you do among those puritanical islanders, who hold pictures to be an abomination, and statues idolatry? The very sight of their white-washed churches will put your genius to flight, which, in the attempt to escape, will be lost in their fogs."

Guido half smiled, half sighed, as he urged the important family business which enforced their absence. The Cardinal then asked for Francesca, and the sudden gloom of his countenance showed