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THE COTTAGE IN THE WOOD.

PRINTED BY L. B. SEELEY,

WESTON-GREEN, THAMES-DITTON.

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PRINTED FOR L. B. SEELEY AND SON,

FLEET STREET, LONDON.

MDCCCXXV.

692.

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THE COTTAGE IN THE WOOD.

CHAP. I.

"Draw the curtain back,

The curtain of obscurity, which hides
The lovely wonder from the public eye,
And, unembellished, let the saint appear
In all the sweet simplicity of grace."

THE morning had risen upon the distant heights, and their snow-clad summits were already gleaming in her smile. The crimson tinge she had imparted to them deepened as we gazed on the wide amphitheatre of mountains, and our minds rose from the material creation, which we surveyed in so much loveliness, to that better and fairer world, on which the sun shall not shine by day,

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