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IT MAY BE TRUE.

CHAPTER I.

ASHLEIGH.

Had'st thou lived in days of old,
O, what wonders had been told
Of thy lively countenance,

And thy humid eyes that dance
In the midst of their own brightness,

In the very fane of lightness;
Over which thine eyebrows, leaning,
Picture out each lovely meaning;

In a dainty bend they lie

Like the streaks across the sky,
Or the feathers from a crow,
Fallen on a bed of snow.

KEATS.

THE village of Ashleigh is situated in one of the most lovely and romantic of the English counties; where mountains, valleys, woods and

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