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 "At last the scene was shifted to our mutual horror. The pulpit-door opens, a man drest in a white surplice, armed with a long crucifix, and bearing a lantern in the other hand, appears on it followed by another fellow drest in black.

" It was the curate and the organist, who came from the village, on seeing the blaze and hearing the noise in the chapel. Ignorant of the marquis's scheme they came to take us unawares. We soon recognized the parties, having seen them before, but the two devils who had never beheld them in their lives, took it for a real apparition to punish their incredulousness, and overwhelmed with a sudden panic, rushed out of the gate. The gigantic Naros dropt his lantern, which fell on the little one's face, who deliberately pickt it up and lighting it again, went to follow his companion that waited for him in the church-yard.

"Here a new catastrophe ensued. The curate beginning to read his exorcisms to conjure away the damned goblins, both of them had the curiosity to look back, when