The Bandit's Bride; Or, the Maid of Saxony. a Romance .. 1
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K ^ CHAP. I9t) THE bandit's bkide. CHAP. XII. JL HE morning succeeding her arrival at the cottage, Rosalthe rose with the lark and repaired to the chapel of St. Florensia, As she ascended the hill she looked mourn- fully towards the castle^ and saw, or fan- cied she saw, its antique turrets sparkling in the sunbeams. For a moment she paused — the form of Adelbert flitted before her, and a deep-drawn sigh swelled her bo- som. All at once the sky looked lower- ing ; the sun became obscured with c...louds; desolation and neglect Were stamped on each feature of the landscape. The grass was long and undisturbed^ save when the wind THE bandit's BHIDE. 197 wind swept across it : — never here had the mower whetted his scythe— never had the cheerful voice of the haymaker mingled with the hoarse croaking of the rooks : the nightshade's poisonous tendril crept round the arches of the chapel ; the darnel, in rank luxuriance, blossomed in the aisle. Dark and weaving were the trees of the fo- rest ; w^hilst the sombre cypress, bending o'er the ruin, together with the thick mant ling ivy, completely obscuring the high and storied windows, shadowed the interior with the still gloom of evening.
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