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the resolution of discovering where Glanville had taken up his abode; it was evident

use belonging to Sir Lionel close by the sea shore; never had I seen a more bleak and dreary prospect than that which stretched for miles around this miserable cabaret

t a strange gentleman had been lodging for the last two or three weeks at a cottage about a mile further up the coast. Thither I

rman and half smuggler, stood in a sort of bay, between two tall, rugged, black cliffs. Before the door hung various nets, to dry beneath the genial warmth of a winter's sun; and a broken boat, with its keel uppermost, furnished an admirable habitation for a hen and her family, who appeared

wn female, who looked like a resuscitated red

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od; on this last were scattered fragments of writing paper, a cracked cup half full of ink, a pen, and a broken ramrod. As I mechanically took up the latter, the woman said, in a charming patois, which I shall translate, since I cannot do justice to the original: "The gentleman, Sir, said he came here for a few weeks to shoot; he brought a gun, a large dog, and a small portmanteau. He used to spend all the

ay over the week, and so we were not surprised when he left us this morning at seven

e additional persuasion they gave to her natural whine to say, "If, Sir, you know of any young gentleman wh

landlady, "quite in a litter like: but

urrying down the stairs, with a pain in m

ce for nearly a month! I wonder he did not exha

ed) and the initials G. D. were all that was engraved upon the stone. Beside this tomb was one of a more pompous description, to the memory of a Mrs. Douglas, which had with the simple tumulus nothing in common, unless the initial letter of the surname corresponding with the latter initial

e: and I went home, more vexed and disappointed with my

nearest town) in order to discover what sort of savages abide there. Great preparations for

harp, like the shri

to make the ball go off; and the attics, even at four o'clock, were thronged w

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