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The priest paused for a moment, overcome with emotion Then he continued,-"Already half fascinated, I tried to cling fast to so I recalled the snares which Satan had already set for me The creature before my eyes possessed that superhuman beauty which can coirl hted within by the vacillating ray of a woel! but of shadows and fla thus, I beheld beside you a goat, a beast of witches, which solden horns Then I perceived the snare of the deer doubted that you had come from hell and that you had come thence for my perdition I believed it"

Here the priest looked the prisoner full in the face, and added, coldly,-"I believe it still Nevertheless, the charhwithin me All that should have awakened was lulled to sleep; and like those who die in the snow, I felt pleasure in allowing this sleep to draw on All at once, you began to sing What could I do, unhappy wretch? Your song was stillI tried to flee Impossible I was nailed, rooted to the spot It seemed to me that the marble of the pavement had risen to my knees I was forced to remain until the end My feet were like ice, my head was on fire At last you took pity on , you disappeared The reflection of the dazzling vision, the reverberation of the enchanting rees from my eyes and my ears Then I fell back into the eid, more feeble than a statue torn from its base The vesper bell rousedwithinhad come upon me from which I could not flee"

Hefrom that day, there ithin me a man whom I did not know I tried to make use of all my remedies The cloister, the altar, work, books,--follies! Oh, how hollow does science sound when one in despair dashes against it a head full of passions! Do you know, young girl, what I saw thenceforth between e of the luminous apparition which had one day crossed the space before er the saloo pursues the vision of the iazed intently at the sun