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( 9 ) ſcreamed out as loud as die could to alarm the houſe, and bring ſomebody to her aſſiſtance.

Her ſhrieks awakened the ladies who lay in an adjacent chamber, and they ſent their woman to fee what was the matter. The woman, upon opening the room ſaw a luminous phantom, which greatly terrified her, and heard in a deep threatening tone the word At thy peril begone.

The woman inſtantly ſcreamed out, and withdrew; the ladies roſe in the utmoſt conſternation and terror, but nobody came to their aſſiſtance; the old man, the father of the girl, was aſleep in a remote part of the houſe; the friar alſo reſted in a room at the end of a long gallery in another ſtory; and the two Dutch officers were abſent on a viſit at a neighbouring village.

No other violence, however, was offered to the girl that night. As ſoon as the morning dawned ſhe got up, ran down to her father, and told all that had happened; the two ladies were not long abſent, they did not ſay much, but diſcharged their arrears, and quitted the houſe. The friar aſked the girl ſeveral queſtions, and declared that he had heard ether inſtances of the like nature, but ſaid, the girl would do well to obey the commands of the viſion, and that no harm would come of it. He laid he would remain to ſee the iſſue, and in the mean time, he ordered proper prayers and maſſes to be ſaid at a neighbouring convent of his order, to which he moſt devoutly joined his own.