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 prion unbarring, and he huddered at the thought of the fate allotted to him, which he had o wonderfully ecaped. He turned up a narrow winding pair of tairs, and travered everal uites of apartments without meeting any one. As he paed along he heard a voice–he topped and litened, and heard the peron exclaim, “By this time it is all over, and I hall be happy–Happy! wretch that I am, how can I talk of happines? Haunted day and night by ten thouand fiends, my life is a burthen: yet I dare not die! Was I not deeply damned enough before, but I mut plunge myelf yet deeper in perdition! O it may not be too late to ave this one crime. Ho! Walter, Hugo, touch him not, I charge you! Ah! that bleeding form which glares upon me! O forgive me! O pare that frown, it freezes my heart!” The voice was ilent for a moment, and then continued, “Foolih plantaies! Shall I be the lave of fear? No, let him die. I hall now enjoy what I have long wihed for. If he reits, force hall bend her tubborn pirit. Shame! hall I be foiled by a woman? Oh, my brain fires again! And have I dipped my hands in blood: have I doomed my oul to eternal miery for a woman? Firt damned by avarice, then by lut, it is vain for me to hope for mercy from heaven! Then let me eize on every pleaure here, nor think of hereafter. To think is madnes. Peace! concience, peace! I will not hear thee! She hall be mine.” Fitzalan, wrought to phreny during this oliloquy, had raied his dagger: a door now opened jut before him, from which Fitzurban came out, with a lamp and word in his hand. As oon as he aw Fitzalan, he hrieked, dropped the word, and before he could call for mercy, felt the dagger in his boom. He fell; and eeing Fitzalan prepare to repeat the blow, feebly uttered, “Hold! in mercy hold your hand! It is enough!” The attendants, alarmed by the noie of their lord falling, now came in, and bore him to a couch. Yet uch was their hatred of him, that not one of them offered to molet Fitzalan. The dying man motioned with his hand for the ervants to retire