Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by Stringer & Townsend, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York.
[4] Mansarde Gallice, from the inventor Mansard, uncle of another architect of the same name of the time of Louis XIV.
[5] It is one of the maxims of magnetism, that when once an entire sympathy between two minds is established equality ensues, and consequently neither can exert influence over the other.
From Bentley's Miscellany.
A GHOST STORY OF NORMANDY.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "HAMON AND CATAR; OR, THE TWO RACKS."
I.
On a fine summer evening, in 1846, I left my house, which was in the neighborhood of Honfleur, Normandy, to take a stroll. It was July. All the morning and all the afternoon the sun had been busily pouring down streams of radiance like streams of boiling water, and I had kept the house, and kept it closely shut up too, till the orb of day had gone some way down towards the sea, as if, like a fire-eater, or like a locomotive, to get a drink after its work.
My wife being asleep, I borrowed her parasol, for English life in France is very free and easy, and I was rather careful of my complexion. I lit a cigar, and starting, soon left the church of St. Catharine behind. My business in the town was to post a letter, which I got safely done, and then passing down the fish-market, I found myself, ere long, at the foot of the Côte de Grace—a steep hill which rises abruptly from the town, and is scaleable at one part by a sandy zigzag.