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COINCIDENCE.

A NOVEL.

Printed by J. Darling, Leadenhall-Street, London.

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With one auspicious and one dropping eye,
With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,
In equal scale weighing delight and dole.

SHAKESPEARE.

VOL. I.

London:

Printed at the Minerva Press for

A. K. NEWMAN AND CO. LEADENHALL-STREET,

COINCIDENCE.

CHAPTER I.

Say, ancient edifice-how long upon the hill has stood
Thy weather-braving tower, and silent mark'd
The human leaf inconstant bud and fall?

The generations of deciduous man,

How often hast thou seen them pass away? HURDIS.

TOWARDS the close of the last cen

tury there stood upon a high hill, which immediately faces the Goodwin Sands, the remains of the ancient Castle of Kingsdown. It was a noble and an interesting fragment - interesting from the scenes of which it was a memorial, and noble from the lofty and venerable aspect which it reared above the land and waters. gave the title of baron

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