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still dark and silent。 The side… passage door was fastened; I opened it with as little noise as possible: all the yard was quiet; but the gates stood wide open; and there was a post…chaise; with horses ready harnessed; and driver seated on the box; stationed outside。 I approached him; and said the gentlemen were ing; he nodded: then I looked carefully round and listened。 The stillness of early morning slumbered everywhere; the curtains were yet drawn over the servants’ chamber windows; little birds were just twittering in the blossom…blanched orchard trees; whose boughs drooped like white garlands over the wall enclosing one side of the yard; the carriage horses stamped from time to time in their closed stables: all else was s
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