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Ah! but in some low and obscure nook, some narrow closet on the ground-floor, shut, locked and bolted, and the key flung away, or beneath the marble pavement, in a stagnant water-puddle, with the richest pattern of mosaic-work above, may lie a corpse, half decayed, and still decaying, and diffusing its death-scent all through the palace!
Among the cows, the starlings were shot into tatters, so that they crawled wingless, legless, maimed, into holes in the stone fences to die. If a respectable curlew sat by the water's edge mirroring his long bill, a rascal of a hunter lay behind a stone and sighted; and was there a water-puddle with rushes that could conceal a young duck, there immediately came a fully-armed hero with raised gun.
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