"I have done mine errand, proud earl, and therefore will go—but not at thy bidding I depart," she added, gathering her scarlet cloak about her hideous person.
"I care not if it be at the devil's—as it is most like to be—so I see thee no more! Cease, my dove, that moan. Her charms are sand—her words false—her prophecies the wildest dreams! Heed them not, if, as I suspect, she has filled thy tender ears with them."
"Thou lovest thy daughter, earl?" she said, interrogatively, as she prepared to depart.
"Too well to see her made miserable, vile sorceress!"
"See, then, thou do not make her so."
"How mean you?" he demanded.
"Beware of a black plume!" she added, mysteriously.
"Explain your meaning, woman!" he said, struck by her manner and the menacing tones in which she gave him this prophetic warning.
The sorceress made no reply; but, turning her face towards the path that led to the seashore, she rapidly traversed the lawn, and, waving her hand warningly, disappeared down the path leading to the beach.
The cause to which her father attributed her sudden and unwonted grief greatly relieved Kate; and by allowing him, through her silence, to retain the impression he had formed, she was saved the embarrassment of making him a confidant of her wounded affections by unfolding to him the true cause—a task, in her present state of mind, impossible for her to perform, and one which, at any time, would have been a sad trial to her maidenly sensitiveness. In a few moments she became more composed: the tide of her affections, which had been forced back upon the fountain-head, having found a channel in paternal love through which to flow, if not in the same direction as before, yet nearly in as deep and strong a current.
She accompanied him to the castle, and for the remainder of the morning was so occupied in forwarding the preparations for his departure and that of her cousin, that she had little time to devote to her own peculiar sorrows, leaving them for the lonely hours that would find her, after they were gone, in the solitary chamber, mourning over her crushed and blighted love. Yet a faint ray of the light of hope shone through the darkness of her heart, and the faintly-cherished belief that the tale of the sorceress might be false kept her from abandoning herself to that hopelessness of grief, shame and utter wretchedness into which she would have sunk had the truth been made manifest to her, divested of every shadow of doubt.
During his Residence of four Years in Europe; with Selections from his Correspondence.
Edited by Matthew L. Davis, Author of "Memoirs of Aaron Burr," &c.
By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney, Author of "Letters to Young Ladies."
By Alexander Keith, D.D., Author of "Evidence of Prophecy," &c. Fourteen beautiful Engravings on Steel.
Embracing Outlines of Western Life and Scenery; Sketches of the Prairies, Rivers, Ancient Mounds, Early Settlements of the French, &c., &c.
A complete Harmony of the Gospel History of our Saviour. For the use of young Persons. Illustrated with Engravings after Chapman and others, by Adams.
From the fifteenth London edition; Illustrated with Engravings after Harvey and Chapman, by Adams.
Including his Letters to his Son, &c. To which is prefixed an original Life of the Author.
By John Abercrombie, M.D., F.R.S.E., Author of "Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth," &c.
According to the System laid down by Lamarck, with the late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and arranged for the Use of Students. By Thomas Wyatt, M.A. Illustrated by thirty-six plates containing more than two hundred types, drawn from the natural shell.
By the Author of "Mellichampe," "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c.
By Harriet Martineau.
Containing Pelham; The Disowned; Devereux; Paul Clifford; Eugene Aram; The Last Days of Pompeii; The Pilgrims of the Rhine; Falkland; Rienzi; Ernest Maltravers, and Alice.
Illustrated by Observations made in England in the year 1836. Part second. By Theodore Sedgwick.
By the Author of "Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land."
With a Map and Engravings. In two vols.
Comprising the details of a Mutiny and atrocious Butchery on board the American brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the Month of June, 1827.
By Harriet Martineau, Author of "Society in America." 2 vols.
A Tale.
By the Author of "Pelham," "Alice," "Leila," &c., &c.
Published under the Direction of the American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
By J. H. Ingraham, Esq., Author of "Lafitte," &c. 2 vols.
By Sharon Turner, LL.D. [Vol. III.—Family Library, No. 84.]
Vol. 15. Containing Part Four of Henry Milner, &c., &c.
By G. P. R. James, Esq., Author of "Richelieu," &c. 2 vols.
A Short Tour in 1835. By Heman Humphrey, D.D. 2 vols.
A Play. By E. L. Bulwer, Esq.
Viz., in Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands. By Wilbur Fisk, D.D.
By H. W. Herbert, Esq., Author of "The Brothers." 2 vols.
Being a Collection of Literary, Moral, Religious, and Miscellaneous Anecdotes.
By the Rev. Messrs. Hoes and Way.
By Thomas Dick, LL.D. With Engravings. [Family Library, No. 83.]
By an American. With a Map and Engravings. 2 vols.
By Mrs. Sherwood. With a Portrait. [Mrs. Sherwood's Works, vol. 14.]
By Henry Fielding, Esq. With Illustrations by Cruikshank.
By E. L. Bulwer, Esq.
By the Author of "Burton," "Lafitte," &c. 2 vols.
The following works, already published, may be regarded as specimens of the whole series, which will consist of about thirty volumes.
First Latin Lessons, containing the most important Parts of the Grammar of the Latin Language, together with appropriate Exercises in the translating and writing of Latin, for the Use of Beginners.
First Greek Lessons, containing the most important Parts of the Grammar of the Greek Language, together with appropriate Exercises in the translating and writing of Greek, for the Use of Beginners.
A Grammar of the Greek Language, for the Use of Schools and Colleges.
A System of Greek Prosody and Metre, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; together with the Choral Scanning of the Prometheus Vinctus of Æschylus, and the Ajax and Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles; to which are appended Remarks on the Indo-Germanic Analogies.
Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Cataline, with an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical Indexes.
Cæsar's Commentaries on the Gallic War; with the first Book of the Greek Paraphrase; with English Notes, critical and explanatory, Plans of Battles, Seiges, &c., and Historical, Geographical, and Archæological Indexes. With a Map, Portrait, &c.
Select Orations of Cicero, with an English Commentary, and Historical, Geographical, and Legal Indexes. With a Portrait.