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Still, if they had had any desire of mustering for a midnight review, or for a goblin-dance, they lost the best opportunity, probably, that will again occur for ages; since another such illumination of the beautiful esplanade in front of the old fortress where the massacre took place, and where the skeleton platoons would of course have mustered, will never again be presented at least not until another Doctor Wheelwright shall build and watch over the fortunes of another Lady-of-the-Lake.
Arrangements were making for the first trip down the lake, and among the fairy islands apparently floating like emeralds upon its bosom; and but a few days more were to elapse before all things were to be in readiness. Meantime, however, before the captain and crew had been shipped, and in order that accident might not happen to the fair Lady-of-the-Lake, or danger come nigh her, Mr.
If you want to see a touch of the grand and glorious, I guess you'll find it there. The hills is sublime; and the lake so clear that you can see the stars in it when it's cloudy." "Indeed! And you then are to be wedded to the Lady-of-the-Lake?" "And a beautiful thing she is, too.
But the agent of the Lady-of-the-Lake was not distinguished for enthusiasm of that sort, and he turned into his berth having no oyster-supper to eat at a very early hour, and betook himself to dreaming not "of antres vast and desarts idle," or of what is sublime and glorious in creation, but of piston-rods and safety-valves pence and passengers.
The Lady-of-the-Lake the first of the fair upon whom he had ever in fact bestowed his affections was not only on fire, but the flames had already made such progress in the work of destruction as at once to preclude the hope of extinguishing them. From the cabin windows, the appearance rendered it certain that the whole structure was wrapped in a sheet of flame.
"Why havn't you hearn?" was his response. "No," was the laconic reply. "What? not of the launch of the 'Lady-of-the-Lake, on Lake George?" "Ah let me see yes: I think I have seen a paragraph respecting it, in the Sandy Hill newspaper. But pray what have you to do with that?" "To do with it? Why every thing. I am the agent of the concern. I have made up the company, and built the boat.
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