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Out in the surrounding marshland, the ignes fatui were lighting their own lamps, wispy blobs of methane blue, firefly glimmerings that winked on and off in scattered synchrony, wandering pale flames gliding around the island's misty backwaters like lost elfin boats.

Upon the whole, no person could be less liable than myself to be led away from the severe precincts of truth by the ignes fatui of superstition.