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 bulous pirit had really a hare in recuing you from the hands of the robber in diguie? How if my fairy neighbour, when he undertook to bring you into a place of afety, had choen to aume my appearance, in order to avoid giving you any alarm? And uppoe I hould tell you, that I have not tirred a tep from this good company, as, being mater of the houe, I could not in common politenes to-night?—that you were brought to my reidence by a tranger, who is now no where to be found?—In this manner then it were poible that the neighbouring pirit had actually aved his honour; and hence it would follow, that he is not the mere creature of the brain that you would make him.’

This addres a little diconcerted the philoophical Countes; her fair daughters lad down their knives in evident conternation, and then looked tedfatly at their hot, in order to read in his eyes whether this was aid in jet, or eriouly intended. A tricter