'Blessed God! I thank thee that I see her once again!' said D'Altonville, endeavouring to fix on me his eyes. They gave me these,' pointing to the garments I have already mentioned, and told me thou wert dead! Frenzy seized my brain; I broke my bonds. He came, and found me once more at liberty,' he pointed to lord Rufus as he spoke, and his sword-' He could no more; his hand explained the rest, by placing itself beneath a wound in his side.

'Oh, save him! save him!' I exclaimed: 'inhuman villains! will ye let him die for want of aid ?'

'It would come too late,' said D'Altonville, once more opening his lips? the pangs of death recalled my reason-it convinced me thou wert still alive! I prayed only to breathe out my last sigh in thine arms!-Oh, Eloise, it is accomplished! Almighty Heaven! shield-' The words died on his tongue-his spirit was fled for ever.

"Without a groan, without a sigh, I saw him expire for a minute all my senses seemed stiffened into apathy, then burst a maddening tide of grief into my veins; one heart-drawn shriek escaped my lips, and I ran to plung myself into the deep, and end my woes in death.

"An arm snatched me back, and all sense fled from me.

"Oh, why was not that moment my last? Why did not Heaven kindly close my eyes in death, and spare me the horror of opening them upon the murderer of my D'Altonville?

"I cannot dwell on the remainder of my narrative as I have done on that already written; it is my desire to complete it before my death. It is a singular, an inexplicable consolation to me to commit my fate to paper: perhaps I am animated by the idea that those sorrows which during my lifetime were shut from the knowledge of the world, may excite a tear of compassion after my decease. I must hasten in my self-imposed task, for I feel a presentiment, a foreboding, that my miseries on earth will not endure much longer: Lord Rufus scorns the wretch he has made.

Upon recovering my senses, I found myself in the apartment where I am now writing, and from which I have never been permitted to stir, except into the library adjoining to it, where I shall deposit my sad recital, when I have concluded it, if that power be ever granted me.

"Lord Rufus and some attendants were in the apartment with me; he dismissed the latter, and a priest, at his call, entered from the library. The moment of my happiness is now come!' was the short intimation which he gave me of his intention respecting myself. My tears, my prayers, my remonstrances, were unheeded alike by him and the priest; and a ceremony. which was by them called marriage, having been performed, the priest left the chamber.

"And here I must for awhile lay down my pen. I can dwell with comparative composure on the death of my D'Altonville, to the sensations which

my mind at this moment experiences in the recollection of the hour which followed that mockery of religion.

"When a month had expired, lord Rufus, probably judging of me by the impression which any occurrence of joy or grief made on his own unfeeling mind, and conceiving the time of affliction for the loss of my D'Altonville to be past, was urgent with me in his entreaties for me to quit my chamber, and to shew myself to his household, and to the world, as the wife of his choice. He should experience much pride, he said, in carrying me to the court, and introducing me there, in a style becoming the rank to which he had raised me.

"I replied, that I should ever consider myself the victim of a tyrant; and feeling that I was so, I would, if possible, shut myself out from my own sight, much more from that of the world.

"The policy of lord Rufus was too great to force me into society against my inclination, how strongly soever he might desire to see me emerge into the world. The tale of his villany at present lay buried in his own breast and mine: within the walls of his castle, I had no means of making my wrongs known to any human being; the domestics I saw were few, and those as wholly unacquainted with the French language as I was with that of England. Had I suffered myself to have been led into the world, with the splendour which would have accompanied my introduction into it as the wife of lord Rufus de Madginecourt, he probably