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viſitants of the pool. At the ſame time he gave her to underſtand, that he was not inveſted with the power of exorciſing ſpirits; but that he had heard of a certain Swanhilda, who many ages ſince loſt her veil, but found inſtead a faithful lover, and under the pinions of wedded love contentedly reſigned the means of flight, eſpecially as the preſervative of youth and beauty lay ſo near at hand. In this repreſentation the charming Calliſta found much conſolation: yet to live in a ſolitude, however richly the romantic ſpot had been adorned by the bounty of nature, ſeemed not much to ſuit her diſpoſition;—a proof that ſentimental ſoftneſs, the twin ſiſter of love, had not yet entered into her heart; for a lonely vale, in ſome remote uninhabited iſland, is the true elyſium of ſentimental ſouls. No ſooner did the complaiſant hermit perceive which way the wiſhes of his gueſt pointed, than he conſented to quit the hermitage. At the ſame time he hinted, that

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