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LODORE.
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CHAPTER III.

Miranda.—Alack! what trouble
Was I then to you!

Prospero.—O, a cherubim
Thou wast, that did preserve me!

The Tempest.

Such was the Englishman who had taken refuge in the furthest wilds of an almost untenanted portion of the globe. Like a Corinthian column, left single amidst the ruder forms of the forest oaks, standing in alien beauty, a type of civilization and the arts, among the rougher, though perhaps not less valuable, growth of Nature's own. Refined to fastidiousness, sensitive to morbidity, the stranger was respected without