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 viitants of the pool. At the ame time he gave her to undertand, that he was not inveted with the power of exorciing pirits; but that he had heard of a certain Swanhilda, who many ages ince lot her veil, but found intead a faithful lover, and under the pinions of wedded love contentedly reigned the means of flight, epecially as the preervative of youth and beauty lay o near at hand. In this repreentation the charming Callita found much conolation: yet to live in a olitude, however richly the romantic pot had been adorned by the bounty of nature, eemed not much to uit her dipoition;—a proof that entimental oftnes, the twin iter of love, had not yet entered into her heart; for a lonely vale, in ome remote uninhabited iland, is the true elyium of entimental ouls. No ooner did the complaiant hermit perceive which way the wihes of his guet pointed, than he conented to quit the hermitage. At the ame time he hinted, that Rh