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Recollections of
[Ch. XV.

CHAPTER XV.

And thou dread statue! yet existent in
The austerest form———

Our nation's foes lament on Fox's death.

A bust delay'd, a book refused, can shake
The sleep of him who kept the world awake.

Byron.

THE LEGEND OF FRIAR'S VALLEY.—BUST OF THR YOUNG KING OF ROME.—THE EMPEROR'S EMOTION ON SHEWING IT.—EXHIBITION OF SOME TOYS SENT BY LADY HOLLAND TO MADAME DERTRAND'S CHILDREN, ETC. ETC.

It was not long after Napoleon had been at Longwood, that chance took him in one of his rides to a romantic glen named "The Friar's Valley," a wildly picturesque spot, so called from the peculiar formation of a huge rock fashioned by nature's hand into the figure of a monk with his cowl

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