Angelina: Or, The Mystery of St. Mark's Abbey — page 26: what you’re looking at

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THE MYSTERY OF 8ST. MARK’S ABBEY, “IZ “ Hold, murderer |” The next moment, Angelina fancied in her dream, that casting ber eyes to- wards the portraits, they seemed suddenly animated with life, and stepping from their frames, confronted the stranger, from whose hand the dagger fell, as a peel of thunder reverberated above, and she once more awoke. Again sleep fell upon the eyelids of Angelina, and again fancy wove around imagination its magic spell. She now thought she was in a dark and dreary passage, the walls of which were damp and loathsome, and were dimly lighted by a lamp depending from the front. She thought she was straggling in the © grasp of the stranger she had before seen, whose cheeks seemed flashed with wine, and whose eyes sparkled with the most alarming passions. In vain she tried to rescue herself from his hated embraces, and her strength was rapidly becoming exhausted. Another moment, and she must have fallen a victim to his guilty desires, when suddenly a doer behind them was thrown back on its hinges, and the handsome stranger of the rock rushed in sword in hand to ber rescue. Immediately upon beholdivg him, she imagined that the man released her from his hold, and drawing his sword, rushed with. great fury upen the stratiger, who met him with a cool and determined courage, a1 the same time be desired Angelina aot to fear, that her oppressor should speedily meet the punishment due to the outrage he had cemmitted. The following moment he pianged hie sword inte the body of his antagonist, who fell and expired with a gronn, By a sort of magic, so natural to dreams,the scene now io an instant seemed to change, and she found herself before the altar in a chapel, while her deliverer was also kneeling by her side, and a priest had commenced. the mar- riage ceremony. Before, however, he had uttered many words, a strais of heavenly music seemed to burst ftom the organ, a silvery vapour arose frem the earth, which, graduaHy dispersing, revealed to the imagination of Angelina the form of the drowned man in her first dream, and by his side stood the spectral figure she had fellowed through the rocky avenues. Angelina thought they siniled benignantly upon her and her companion, and seemed te be calling down a blessing upon their head, which, having lasted for a few seconde, the phantom of the man thus spoke in a hollow sepulchral voice t= ‘- . © Ke siust net be; nature forbids the union!” Again an anearthly strain of music swelled frem the orgaa, the forme seemed gradually to meit away, and Angelina awake | ‘The diewal bell ef a neighbouring chutch now tolled forth the hour of two, but Angelina slept 20 more. The curious visions that had haunted ber slam- bers eceupied her thoughts till daylight, and she in vain sought to elucidate them. With a mind sot imbued with superstition, still Angelisa could not help thinting that they were forebodings of what was going to happea to her ; she connected them with what she had met the last two or three days, and ber mind received a very strong impression, that she was marked cat by Fate to be the heroine of sume strange and painfal adventure. The mysterious words which ene ‘magined she had seen at the entrance to the cavern, in her second dream varticularly struck her, namely, “ Enter here~-search well,~and you wil. b¢ ~ewarded |” and she was induced to believe that it was really a super- matures warnirg given to her, to bring about some mysterious event and dis- covery. The form she had seen in the cavern, the more convinced her of the justness of this idea, and she resolved in spite of the consequences which might r+ CONNIE DOO Go