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Darkness and silence reigned in the conservatory; the group of the sleeping man and attendant woman was lost in the warm gloom, and scarcely a motion-the low drawing of a breath-told of their presence.
A great gray owl, which had passed the daylight in some obscure corner, launched darkling forth on the air and winged hither and thither,-once or