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CHAP. VII.

THE SLEEPING VENUS.

Quoth he: In all my life till now,
I ne'er saw so profane a show.
Butler.

The library of Crotchet castle was a large and well-furnished apartment, opening on one side into an anti-room, on the other into a music-room. It had several tables stationed at convenient distances; one consecrated to the novelties of literature, another to the novelties of embellishment; others unoccupied, and at the disposal of the company. The walls were covered with a copious collection of ancient and modern books; the ancient having been selected and arranged by the Reverend Doctor Folliott. In the anti-room