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Excerpt from James Hatfield and the Beauty of Buttermere, Vol. 2 of 3: A Story of Modern Times
"The beams flash on,
And make appear the melancholy wrecks
Of cancelled cycles; anchors, beaks of ships,
Quivers, helms, spears, and gorgon-headed targes,
And the emblazonry round which death laughed." Shelley.
If Golefield had looked forward, on his admission to Mikes cell, to gratify his curiosity in seeing the venerable stranger there, he was at the same time constrained to own that, for the infirm frame and tottering limbs of age, the passage into the weird mariner's cell was little convenient, as we are about to witness. Accordingly, if he should not find that aged form where he expected, his surprise would not be very great; and his conclusion then would be, that the stranger had withdrawn just in time to avoid encountering himself and Routhmore, as indicated by the sound of the footsteps they had just heard receding from the spot.
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