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Page 70:-
dog is seen swimming across the lake. The plates and dishes
clatter; and the table is spread by unseen hands. That is
the preparation for the ghostly wedding feast of a murdered
bride, who comes up from her watery bed in the lake to keep
her terrible nuptials. There is really something remarkable,
and like witchery, about the house. On a bright moonlight
night, the spectator who looks towards it from a distance of
two or three miles, sees the light reflected from its
windows into the lake; and, when a slight fog gives a
reddish hue to the light, the whole might easily be taken
for an illumination of a great mansion. And this mansion
seems to vanish as you approach,- being no mansion, but a
small house lying in a nook, and overshadowed by a hill. The
bridge being crossed, another bit of lane leads out upon the
high road near the clean little inn, the King's Head, and
within view of the vale of St. John.
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Castle Rock
Lord Clifford
Castlerigg
Southey's grave
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One would like to know how often the Bridal of Triermain has
been read within that vale. The Castle Rock, in its
disenchanted condition, is a prominent object in approaching
the vale from Legberthwaite, or by the road just described;
and there are lights and gloomy moments in which it looks as
like as may be to a scene of witchery,- now engrossing the
sunshine when the range to which it belongs is all in
shadow; and now perversely gloomy, because there is a single
cloud in the sky. The narrow vale is full of character and
charm, from end to end; and at its northern extremity it
comes out upon a spot of strong historical interest. The
village of Threlkeld will, by its name, remind the traveller
of the good Lord Clifford, the story of
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-- (Armboth House)
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-- Castle Rock
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-- Ambleside to Keswick
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-- "Vale of St John" -- St John's in the Vale
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-- Threlkeld
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