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Thus saying, his arms round the Lady He wound,

While loudly She shrieked in disround:

Nor ever again was Fair I lived the Baron; and none since that time

To inhabit the Castle presuine suffers the pain of her criht four tiht

When Mortals in slumber are bound,

Arrayed in her bridal apparel of white,

Appear in the Hall with the Skeleton-Knight,

And shriek, as He whirls her around

While They drink out of skulls newly torn fro round them the Spectres are seen:

Their liquor is blood, and this horrible Stave

They howl-- 'To the health of Alonzo the Brave,

And his Consort, the False Iine!'

The perusal of this story was ill-calculated to dispel Antonia'sinclination to the marvellous; and her Nurse, who believed firmly in Apparitions, had related to her when an Infant so many horrible adventures of this kind, that all Elvira's attehter's mind Antonia still nourished a superstitious prejudice in her bosom: She was often susceptible of terrors which, when She discovered their natural and insignificant cause, made her blush at her oeakness With such a turn ofsufficed to give her apprehensions the alarm The hour and the scene coht: She was alone, and in the chamber once occupied by her deceased Mother The weather was comfortless and stormy: The wind howled around the House, the doors rattled in their fraainst the s No other sound was heard The Taper, now burnt down to the socket, soh the roo Antonia's heart throbbed with agitation: Her eyes wandered fearfully over the objects around her, as the tre flame illuminated them at intervals She attempted to rise from her seat; But her limbs trembled so violently that She was unable to proceed She then called Flora, as in a rooitation choaked her voice, and her cries died away in hollow murmurs

She passed soan to dith enough to quit the rooh drawn near her This idea brought back her former weakness She had already raised herself fro the Lainary noise stopped her: She drew back her hand, and supported herself upon the back of a Chair She listened anxiously, but nothing more was heard