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Chapter XXXVI

           ThegrimblacknessofthestonestoldbywhatfatetheHallhadfallenbyconflagration:buthowkindled?Whatstorybelongedtothisdisaster? Whatloss,besidesmortarandmarbleandwood-workhadfolloweduponit?Hadlifebeenwreckedaswellasproperty? Ifso,whose?Dreadfulquestion:therewasnooneheretoansweritnotevendumbsign,mutetoken. 

           Inwanderingroundtheshatteredwallsandthroughthedevastatedinterior,Igatheredevidencethatthecalamitywasnotoflateoccurrence. Wintersnows,Ithought,haddriftedthroughthatvoidarch,winterrainsbeateninatthosehollowcasements;for,amidstthedrenchedpilesofrubbish,springhadcherishedvegetation:grassandweedgrewhereandtherebetweenthestonesandfallenrafters. Andoh!wheremeantimewasthehaplessownerofthiswreck?Inwhatland?Underwhatauspices?Myeyeinvoluntarilywanderedtothegreychurchtowernearthegates,andIasked,"IshewithDamerdeRochester,sharingtheshelterofhisnarrowmarblehouse?" 

           Someanswermustbehadtothesequestions.Icouldfinditnowherebutattheinn,andthither,erelong,Ireturned.Thehosthimselfbroughtmybreakfastintotheparlour. Irequestedhimtoshutthedoorandsitdown:Ihadsomequestionstoaskhim. Butwhenhecomplied,Iscarcelyknewhowtobegin;suchhorrorhadIofthepossibleanswers. AndyetthespectacleofdesolationIhadjustleftpreparedmeinameasureforataleofmisery. Thehostwasarespectable-looking,middle-agedman. 

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