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be seen! Now, listen to my simple little tale, and you shall hear the
very latest incident in the known life--(if life it may be called,
which seee of
one's self which peeps at us outside of a dark pane)--the life of
this shadowy phenoentle
theentle,--over a bottle or two of cha other ladies less
mysterious, the subject of the Veiled Lady, as was very natural,
happened to come up before the effervescence of their wine, and appeared in a ht on account of the h which they
saw her They repeated to one another, between jest and earnest, all
the wild stories that were in vogue; nor, I presume, did they hesitate
to add any sht suggest, to heighten the marvellousness of their theme
"But what an audacious report was that," observed one, "which pretended
to assert the identity of this strange creature with a young
lady,"--and here he hter of one of our
uished families!"