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 had received from the word of Glanville rendered death inevitable; and, at the requet of that youth, the entence was upended.

The ambitious views which this imperious lord had formed, were now completely diappointed. His family, whom he fought to enrich and ennoble by the crime of murder, had all decended to the grave; the lat that remained he aw fall in this battle, and was himelf now hastening to that gloomy dwelling; not with the atisfaction of having paed a life of piety and virtue, but with the reproaches of a heart tainted with every vice, and where that of murder formed the chief.

Such was the end of an ambition, founded in murder. May this tale impres on the mind of the reader the important truth it is intended to convey that what is begun in vice cannot end in peace; and that however uccesfully the cunning and artifice of narrow-minded mortals may plan the concealment of their crimes from their fellow men, they are till viible to the all-earching eye of !



ADELA was the only daughter of a powerful baron of Aquitaine. Her father prung from an illutrious family, and added to hereditary honours the glory of heroic atchievements. In his youth, he accompanied the flower of the European chivalry, who fought under the banner of Godfrey, and recovered the holy epulchre from the hands of the infidels. He returned