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Rh mind. When she saw a young cavalier spring into the room, she immediately made up her mind that it was Lorraine. A young lady's lover is always present to her imagination; and, of course, exaggerating in her own mind both the difficulty and honour of the adventure, she felt as if Edward had been actually defrauded. If not the most unreasonable—that would be saying too much—a girl in love is certainly the most unreasoning of human beings.

The tide of the narrow stream was with them; Cecil and his comrade rowed vigorously; and all danger of pursuit was rapidly decreasing. But that each of the party were too much occupied for external observation, the eye might have dwelt delightedly on the still beauty around. The deep river, where the oar dipped, but plashed not—the gloomy outlines of the steep banks, whose old trees seemed gigantic—the dark sky overhead, where two or three small but bright stars shone their only light, so far and so spiritual—the gleam of the tapers, which, from the stream's running in a straight line, was still visible from the casement of the old castle, though now diminished to a small bright point—the obscure which they were penetrating—for, from the increasing height of its