gloom pervaded my spirit. I sayinsufferable; for the feeling was unrelievedby any of that half-pleasurable, becausepoetic, sentimen
"No, you‘ve never seen him," the old manseen him," the old man was saying: "youcouldn‘t, you know, he‘s been away so long-traveling from landto land, and seeking for health, more years than you‘ve beenalive, little Sylvie!"
still, large excuse must be madefor aman who had passed several years at the Court ofFairyland, and had there acquired the almost impossible art ofpronouncing five syllables as one.
"She‘s with the Warden, I believe, y‘reince!" the Chancellor repliedwith a low bow. There was, no doubt, a certain amount ofabsurdity in applying this title
I reined my horse to the precipitousbrink of a black and lurid tarn that lay inunruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazeddown-but with a shudder eventhrilling than before-upon the remodelledand inverted images of the gray sedge, andthe ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant andeye-like windows.
