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EUGENE ARAM.
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CHAPTER III.
a dialogue and an alarm.—a student's house.
"A fellow by the band of Nature marked,
Quoted, and signed, to do a deed of shame."
The liberal voice of Fame, in her report.*****Myself was once a student, and indeed
Fed with the self-same humour he is now."
Ben Jonson.—Every Man in his Humour.
The two sisters pursued their walk along a scene which might well be favoured by their selection. No sooner had they crossed the stile, than the village seemed vanished into earth; so quiet, so lonely, so far from the evidence of life was the landscape through which they passed. On their right, sloped a green and silent hill, shutting out all view beyond itself, save the deepening and twilight sky; to the left, and immediately along
