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The Count's expedition to the garden-A mysterious nymph feeding

geese-The resemblance of mushroom-gathering to the wanderings of

the shades in the Elysian Fields-Varieties of mushrooms-Telimena

in the Temple of Meditation-Consultation in regard to the

settlement of Thaddeus-The Count as a landscape

painter-Thaddeus's artistic observations on trees and clouds-The

Count's thoughts on art-The bell-The love note-A bear, sir!

The Count returned home, but he kept checking his horse, turning

back his head, and gazing at the garden; and once it seemed to

him that a mysterious, snow-white gown again flashed from the

window; and that again something light fell from on high, and

flitting across the garden in the twinkling of an eye, glittered

among the green cucumbers, like a sunbeam that steals out from a

cloud and falls on a slab of flint in a ploughed field, or on a

small sheet of water in a green meadow.