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Excerpt from Tales of the Castle, or Stories of Instruction and Delight, Vol. 2 The infide of the cafile anfwered to the out; every thing there retraced the noble fimplicity of our anceflors no gliding, no porcelain vafes, no bawbles, fuch as load our modern houfes but beautiful tapezries, reprel'enting fome interefiing point of billory, and long galleries, ornamented with family portraits, where the owner walked in the m'idfi of his anceors, and meditated on their pafideeds and whence he might difcover through the windows a large forefi on the one fide, and on the other, the pleafant banks of the Indre. 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.