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208 before any of her opponents were sufficiently recovered from their dismay to stop or molest her passage. All the nuns were either not so fortunate or so resolute. Certain it is, that one of them, and a namesake too, Bertha de Neville, a few weeks after, married this very Sir John Arundel. The legend went on to state, that the nuptial merriment was disturbed by the sudden appearance of a pale spectral figure, who entered, as it contrived to depart from the banquet-hall, unobserved, and denounced the most awful curses on bridegroom and bride. A similar appearance was said to have attended the christening of their first child. Years passed away; and the story of the White Prioress was one of those which belong of right to all ancient families. A ghost only pays an old house a proper attention by an occasional visit. And now that Arundel Hall was, for the time at least, deserted—and Emily was the last of her race, just, too, on the eve of her departure for foreign parts, together with the apparition seen by the gardener—such an opportunity for aught of superstitious record might never occur again. Traditions, omens, appearances, prophecies, came thick and threefold; till, what with inventions and