Angelina: Or, The Mystery of St. Mark's Abbey — page 27: what you’re looking at

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14 ANGELINA; OR, uccur to her. to attempt (o penetrate the _— of these subtcrraneous avenues the next day. Having come to this deiermination, her thoughts reverted to the handsome stranger she had encoentered in such a singular maoner, and his remarkable behaviour. in vain she tried to conjectare who or what he was? The more she thought, the more did she become involved in perplexity, and the more anxious was she to have that perplexity removed. That he was of no mean rank, his ooble bearing sufficiently convinced ber, but whatever could be his motives for fo}- lowing her footsteps, she was perfectly at a loses to imagiac. CHAPTER IV. Frax in her determination to search the subterraneous caverns,. Angelina seized the opportunity of her uncle being absent from home the fullowing day, and having provided herself with a lamp, and the means of lighting it, made her way towards the rocks.. As she approached the sea-beach, the mysterious evens of her dreams re- curred to her recollection, and she looked timidly across the ocean, almost ex- pecting to see them realized, and to bebold the dying man cast at her feet. But the waves were calm, and the golden rays of the sun streamed fall apon the surface of the deop, giving it the appearance of a vast expense of liquid fire. After-looking: cautiously around her fora few mements, to make sure that she was net observed, Angelina mentally committed herself to the care of Provi- dence, and entered the outer cavern, where she paused to listen ere she ven- tared te proceed. Recollecting the ghastly form she had before seen there, a momentary sensation of fear crept over her, which, however, vanished, when she found that a profovad stillness reigned around, save the dismal murmur of the waves as they dashed against the rocks; she became firm, and suiiled at her former apprehensions. She stepped towards the small cavern, whence she had geen the form issue, and there agnin listened, but no sounds broke upen her ears. All was buried in obscurity beyond, and Angelina prepared to strike a light ; and while she was thus occupied, she thought she heard a noise like the closing of a ponderous door, but ali afterwards was as still as death. Having lighted her lamp, she was enabled to discover that the cavern, or rather passage, was very long and narrow. The raye of her lamp could not penetrate to the fall extent of this dreary passage, along which she proceeded, frequently pausing to listen and Jook around her; and as she advanced, it became lower, antil at length she was compelled to stoop to prevent her:head frem coming in contact with the roof. Upon arriving at the end, it branched off to the right into an avenue, muck wider and loftier than the one she had been traversing, and which received light from various natural apertures in the rocks above. As far as Angelina could see, there was ‘not the least signs of any human being having been there before her, and she trembled, for the air araund her was keen and ones aad the earth beneath her feet was moist and muddy. Having arrived at the end of this place, Angelina was surprised to find a Go cCoMmmicaooks