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 ‘''Glanville! thou art the very emblance of my murdered uncle''.’ The words, and the action that did accompany them, are dill freh in my memory; and, at this moment, I know not wherefore, occur with more than common force: but I am too weary for thinking, and leep lies heavy on my eyes. Here will I ret myelf this night,” aid he, throwing himelf upon a opha, which tood in the room, “and to-morrow, will give thee things a farther thought.”

Fatigue had o oppreed the pirits of the youthful traveller, that he oon fell into a profound deep. His repoe was unditurbed; nor did he hake his lumber off till the un-beams darted full upon his face, through the broken lattice of his apartment. Starting from his couch, he gazed like one jut wakened from a dream, upended in doubt, till the adventures of the preceding day recurred to his memory, whether that he aw was real, or the viion of created fancy.–“If there is ought to be believed in dreams,” aid he, “then thoe I have had to-night portend ome trange event. Methought, as I lay leeping, a pectre, iuing from that door, approached the couch and gazed attentive on my face. Long it tood in mute and ilent admiration. I aw the tear of orrow trembling in its eye: the mile of hope ucceeded, and, as it left the room, I roe to watch its departure, when, its eyes till bent on me, in a hollow tone of voice it cried–‘At the mid hour of night, fail not to meet me here!’–then intantly vanihed from my fight. But this,” continued he, after a hort paue, “is the work of mimic fancy, an idle dream, no more.”

“More!” anwered a hollow voice, from beneath.

“Heavens!” exclaimed the wondering youth; “uch was the voice that I heard in my leep! Say, thou inviible and perturbed pirit, are thoe things, which in my lumber’s buy memory treaured up, real, or of portive fancy? Speak, for on thy anwer depends my return to this lonely manion.”

“At the mid hour of night, fail not to meet me here!” anwered the voice, in the ame hollow tone.

“Then ret in peace,” aid Glanville; “for by the