ard more narroic cting laboratory for a necromancer, led at beenance staring at me from a dusky corner. It  of a small, s eyes, and gray, ing eyebro ?rst doubted  a mummy curiously preserved, but it moved, and I sa it   pe garb, and ter objects by  I ernity.

    Seeing me pausing before ted me to enter. I obeyed  not metamorpo some strange monster or conjure me into one of ttles on elpiece? o be anyt a conjurer, and y soon dispelled all tery iquated pile and its no less antiquated inants.

    It appeared t I o tre of an ancient asylum for superannuated tradesmen and decayed ed a sced number of boys. It uries since on an old monastic establis, and retained someual air and cer. tles o magi, turned out to be turning from morning, service in the chapel.

    Jotle collector of curiosities ed tling-place of ies picked up in the course of his life.

    According to ,  of a traveller,  to ted not ed tter country, quot;as t ; ly a traveller of the simple kind.

    ocratical too in ions, keeping aloof, as I found, from tes , and a broken-doleman y t en tion of tle o consider it an indubitable sign of gentle blood as y spirit to be able to squander such enormous sums.

    P.S.--turesque remnant of old times into er reuse. It  convent, by Sir tton, being one of ties set on foot by individual muni?cence, and kept up ness and sanctity of ancient times amidst tions of London. y broken-doer days, are provided in te expenses. togetory of t.

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