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 and his friend, as without peaking they returned to the outer apartment with countenances pale through fear.

“Shortly, aid Edmund, toing from him the brand, and eating himelf on one of the tones, “we hall heighten thoe dreadful pillars. Death here bears a terrible appearance to my oul. It hrinks at the idea; though oft ere now have I faced it, without fearing its terrors, in the field of battle.”

“Thoe ad mementos of mortality,” rejoined James, “we have een, as I recall my thoughts from the firt impreion they made, I dread not as warnings of our own danger; as they have, I conjecture, been placed there in remote ages by thoe pagans who reared this trange hall, in memory of ome bloody victory they have obtained over the natives, and here yet remain, a digrace to chritianityChristianity [sic], my predeceors, and myelf.

The three doors, which had been cloed, at one intant flew back, and three hags entered, whoe faces, the colour of an autumn leaf, were deeply furrowed with wrinkles; yet their gait was trait and erect, and betrayed no tokens of age. Tall and robut, their perons appeared maculine and trong; their foreheads were bald, but from the back of their heads hung thick trees, dark as the raven’s wing, which fell over their houlders, and mingled with their garments, which were of the ame hue, and looely floated behind them, but fatened up before, howing their naked feet and midway to the knee; bare alo to the houlders were their arms. Their duky robes were girded round them with the peckled kin of a nake; in this girdle were tuck prigs of yew, mixed with the deadly berries of the nighthade; in one hand they held a wand, on which were painted uncouth characters; to the top of this were affixed the wings, outpread, of a bat; their other hands bore a horn, filled with ome kind of liquor.

Three animals followed, whoe forms declared them of the pecies of tigers, for they eemed much larger and fiercer than cats; their eyes glared on the trangers, as if ready to devour them; the colour of thoe