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 hopes of conquet that ire a oldier’s breat, I will meet thee at the appointed hour.”

A hollow groan ucceeded, accompanied with a loud and thundering noie, that hook the very foundation of the catle.

When the noie had ceaed, Glanville falling on his knees, olicited from heaven fortitude and courage to meet the horrors of the approaching night; and then taking from the table his word, together with the caket that contained the miniature of the late baron, he decended the ame flight of teps which had conducted him to the apartment where he had patted the night; and having recroed the moat, acended a neighbouring hill, on the brow of which he perceived a mierable hut. The tenants of this clay-built tenement received him with hopitality, and offered him uch refreshment as their hovel afforded, which, poor and humble as it was, proved very acceptable to Glanville, who had not tated food from the time he left his father’s houe.

From the door of this cottage the turrets of the abandoned catle were een jut peeping above the urrounding trees; and Glanville, whoe thoughts were wholly occupied in reflecting on the occurrences of the preceding evening, and in anticipating thoe events which the womb of futurity laboured to bring forth, anxiouly quetioned his hots on the ubject of the building being deerted by its owner, and left to moulder and decay. From thee he learned the name of the catle, and the circumtance which had determined lord Raymond to leave it; but of the former baron they poessed not the leat knowledge.

The agitation of his mind received no relief from this information; and having thanked thee cottagers for the repat they had afforded him, he bade them good day, and directed his way toward the foret, in which he intended to pas the remainder of the time between, the preent and the hour that was to lead him to the catle.

When he had reached the thicket part of the wood he threw himelf on the gras; and drawing the