Angelina: Or, The Mystery of St. Mark's Abbey — page 224: what you’re looking at

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for nt THE MYSTERY OF SI, MARK’'S ABBEY, il suffice it to say, that it was brutal in the extreme ; bat Clifford received his taunts and persecutions with the most superlative contempt, and mocked at his threats. To know, however, that Angelina was in his power, and that he was prevented from rendering her any assistance, greatly tormented his mind, and he felt truly wretched. As regarded his own fate, he felt quite indifferent; but to know that her, to whom his heart was devoted, was left te the tender mercies of the villain De Morton, filled his bosom with the most poignant anguish, and there were moments when his anxiety and fear became insepportable. He was placed in a dungeon under the left wing of the tower and heavily fettered, and his fare was of the coarsest and most loathsome description. The place, too, was horribly damp, and always buried ia im- penetrable darkness, and the rats and other vermin used to crawi/ about ia abundance, and over him, as he stretched his limbs upon the heap of straw which formed his pallet. Tedious and painful were the hours that the young man passed in this horrible place, and the baron daily visited him to glut over his anguish, and to exult in the success which had crowned his villainous schemes. He threatened him with perpetual imprisonment, and in tones of irony informed him, that he would suffer him to live to know that Angelina was living with him as his mistress. At these times it was with the utmost diffi- culty that he could restrain his temper, er bear with it, with the least de- gree of patience. In spice, however, of the threats of the baron, and the wretch Rafus, Clifford did net give way entirely to despair, and there were moments when his hepes were so strongly raised that he could not help be- lieving he should not only be able to effect his liberation, but also te rescue Angelina, uninjured, from his power. He bad not the least doubt but that the men who had come with him on the expedition, when they found that he did not return, would conclude that something had happened to him; and having made the circumstance known to Kate of the Ruins, some means would be immediately adopted by her to ensure his restoration to liberty, and the liberation of Angelina. Thus passed away several days, and Clifford suffered no change in his cir- cumstances, nor saw any prospect of being relessed from his present painful confinement. He suffered considerably from the effects of the wound which had been inflicted on him when himself and our heroine were seized by Rufus and- his accomplices, more especially as he was supplied with no remedy for it, and the cure of it was left entirely to chanee. However, he had naturally an excellent constitution, and, in a short time, it entirely healed, without his feeling any further bad effects from it, As day after day glided on, and still he saw no prespect of being released from his gloomy dunzeon, his im- patience grew stronger, and at certain times the pain he felt was intolerable 5 and he raved in the most violent manner against the villainy of the baron, who only mocked at and reviled his safferings, And must he, then, end his days in that awful place, and Angelina so near him, and yet he unable to approach her, or to render her any proteetion against the power of the villain | by whom she was persecuted? Alas! it appeared not at all imprebable; for what prospect had he to the contrary ? Should De Morton discover that it was found out he was confined in the Grey Tower, he would adopt sure means of frustrating every scheme to rescue him from bis power; and he was GOMMGIOO 1(GO)