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The proposal for a ht raer portion of the company They immediately set forth and

descended fro their way by waxen tapers,

which are a necessary equipht-ti from the

courtyard of the edifice, they looked upward and saw the sky full of

light, which seemed to have a delicate purple or crie than the cold, white moonshine of other

skies It glea the

architectural ornaments of its cornice and pillared portal, as well as

the iron-barred baseave such a prison-like aspect to

the structure, and the shabbiness and Squalor that lay along its base

A cobbler was just shutting up his little shop, in the basear vender's lantern flared in the blast that cah

the archway; a French sentinel paced to and fro before the portal; a

ho, that haunted thereabouts, barked as obstreperously at the

party as if he were the douardian of the precincts

The air was quietly full of the noise of falling water, the cause

of which was nowhere visible, though apparently near at hand This

pleasant, natural sound, not unlike that of a distant cascade in the

forest, may be heard in many of the Roman streets and piazzas, when