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HEN they came horne from their tour amidst the mÍDes of Galícia and the plaing of Hungary, and from their reception amongst the adoring townsfolk of restored Idrac, the autumn was far advanced, and the long raiua and the wild wjnds of October had risen, making of every brook a torrent.

On their return she found intelhgence from Paris that a friend of her father's, and her own godfather, the Biic de Noira, had died, bequeathing her hÍ8 gallery of pictures, and hÍ9 art collection of the eighteenth century, VOL. III. B