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 This converation, in the opinion of the whole company, afforded undeniable evidence of an overtrained imagination. They all expreed their compaion for her ituation; unanimouly agreeing that he was a enible woman, without any thing extravagant in her ideas, except when her fancy took the road over the Giant-mountains. The Countes on her part, from the nodding and winking of the ring of critics that urrounded her, oon aw that he was eyed with a hrewd upicion of her dieae having hifted out of her limbs into her head. She thought the bet way of removing o injurious a prejudice was, to relate, at length, her adventure upon the Sileian borders. She was heard with the attention uually betowed upon a tale that entertains for a moment, but of which not a yllable is believed. Thus he experienced the fortune of the prophetes Caandra, to whoe admonitions Apollo had rendered every Trojan ear deaf, as a punih- ment