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People, especially imaginative ones, are apt to talk a good deal about / coming shadows and presentiments of evil, becoming especially diffuse on / the subject of the low spirits which they feel or fancy they have felt / previous to any great and dire calamity. In my humble opinion such / warnings lie entirely in the imagination, and, moreover, those who prate / about this gift of second sight are apt to forget the million cases of / _un_announced misfortunes to be set against the isolated instances of / anticipated evil. Amongst these million cases we may safely cite that of / Honor Beacham on the afternoon of that famous Tuesday when, with / complaisant Mrs. Norcott for her duenna, she strolled with Arthur / Vavasour under the avenue of arching trees, then in their rich wealth of / snowy beauty, which leads, as all the world well knows, to
/ "The structure of majestic frame / Which from the neighbouring Hampton takes its name."