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 I stopped to alight, the servants not being within call. However, he dismounted, exclaiming, with his amiable kindness, "Keep your seat: my saddle, too, wants to be tied faster." While he was employed to bind the girth faster, I made some motions to make it easier to him, and in the same moment my looks catched a white object in the park. My heart began violently to palpitate; a cold tremour pervaded my limbs; and I scarcely was capable to keep myself in the saddle.

A female being, of an heavenly form, walked in the park, within a small distance from the wall. She carried a book in one hand, and with the other screened her face against the dazzling rays of the sun, reflecting, as it seemed, upon what she had read. A little green straw-hat, fixed with a white ribbon beneath her chin, overshaded her long auburn tresses, which depended in beautiful ringlets upon her girdle: the morning breezes sported with her