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CHARMION.

Grapple not now with such thoughts. To-morrow we will speak of

this. Your mind wavers, and its agitation will find relief in the exercise of simple memories. Look not around, nor forward - but back. I am burning with anxiety to hear the details of that stupendous event which threw you among us. Tell me of it. Let us converse of familiar things, in the old familiar language of the world which has so fearfully perished.




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