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 Adela lamented, wept, entreated; in vain he threw herelf at her father's feet, and tore her dihevelled trees, and in anguih mote her breat. Her oppoition, intead of mitigating, his rigour, augmented his reentment, and confirmed him in his ungenerous purpoe. He mingled menaces and unkind reproach with his peruaions. “By the holy rood,” aid he, with a fatidious and wrathful apect, “the honour of my houe hall not be tained by the pretenions of a low-born boy. Degenerated as thou art, the meannes of thy entiments hall not ully the plendour of thine ancetry, nor load my repected age with dihonour. Receive the addrees of Edgar with uitable regard, and the deference due to my commands. Mean time preparations hall be made for the bridal olemnity, in a manner becoming the dignity of this alliance.”

Adela, after remontrating in vain againt the everity of his commands, intreated, with an humble and dejected air, that the marriage ceremony might be delayed. “Can Edgar,” aid he, “prize the cold and contrained embraces of a heart that throbs for another? Will the ighing and anguih of a broken pirit accord with the fond carees of a bridegroom? To Edwin my faith was plighted, and on him my imagination hath dwelt. Give me time, therefore, to divert the current of an affection too violent to be uddenly oppoed; to dicourage the reveries of fancy, animated by a legal and habituated paion; and to reconcile myelf to the addrees of Edgar.” As her reaoning was plauible, the nuptial olemnity was deferred. But, as oon as he had retired from her father’s prefence, he ummoned a page in whom he confided, and poke to him in the following manner: “Prepare thee for a long journey: addle the fleetet of my father’s teeds, and during the obcurity of the night depart. Hie thee to the banks of the Ebro; find Edwin; tell him of the perils that beet me; tell him that a wealthy and powerful rival, with cotly parade, and glittering how of blazonry, hath impoed on my father, and ininuated