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brimmed country hat upon the ground and showed a frank and manly countenance. His complexion might in youth have been ruddy, but time. and time's attendants, thought and passion, had paled it; his chesnut hair, faded, but not grey, still clustered over a noble brow; his features were regular and handsome, a wellformed nose, the square mouth and its white teeth, and the clear grey eye which befitted such an idiosyncracy. Ilis time of vigorous manhood, for he was much nearer forty than fifty years of age, perhaps better suited his athletic form, than the more supple and graceful season of youth.

Stretching his powerful arms in the air, and delivering himself of an exclamation which denoted his weariness, and which had broken the silence, he expressed to his companion his determination to rest himself under the shade of the cedar in the contiguous garden, and inviting his friend to follow him, he took up his hat and moved away.

There was something in the appearance of the stranger that interested Egremont; and

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