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Excerpt from The Magdalen Churchyard, Vol. 1 Of those sheaves of fire. To enjoy the splendid scene, I had seated myself on the rdling of the bridge; resting my back against a lamp post. The silence which surrounded me was only interrupted by distant clamours, waited on the wings of the wind, and by the waves of the Seine under my feet. The atmosphere was soon spread with a net of fire, whose shining meshes gave a yellowish hue.to the surrounding trees. At this instant, as if the sun had restored its presence to blind mortals, the great city, through stream of light, presented itself to my view. On the two banks, bordered with lanterns, l beheld again the hotels and palaces with their sumptuous calmnades, their regular frondspieces, the temples and monuments, with their angular roofs, and their spherical domes, and through the yellow tufts of trees, rich peristyles, proud carv ings, and those inhospitable hives, which conceal the efforts of indefatigable industry. I had just turned my attention to the sinuosities of the current of the Seine, on which [discovered a few. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.