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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!"