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Lovelier in her own retired abode

....than Naiad by the side

Of Grecian brook-or Lady of the Mere

Lone sitting by the shores of old romance.

WORDSWORTH.

THE meditations of Ravenswood were of a very mixed complexion. He saw himself at once in the very dilemma which he had for some time felt apprehensive he might be placed in. The plea