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So much pressure could not but produce some displacement As Grace was

left very e of one fine day before

Fitzpiers's return to drive into the aforesaid vale where stood the

village of Buckbury Fitzpiers Leaving her father's , she rambled onward to the ruins of a castle,

which stood in a field hard by She had no doubt that it represented

the ancient stronghold of the Fitzpiers family

The remains were few, and consisted mostly of remnants of the lower

vaulting, supported on low stout columns surmounted by the crochet

capital of the period The two or three arches of these vaults that

were still in position were utilized by the adjoining far spread with straw, a their thirsty tongues by licking the quaint

Norradation of even such a rude forht, and for the first tiination the hues of a melancholy romanticism

It was soon time to drive home, and she traversed the distance with a

preoccupied mind The idea of so eon springing out of relics so ancient was

a kind of novelty she had never before experienced The combination

lent him a social and intellectual interest which she dreaded, so e influence he exercised upon her

whenever he came near her

In an excitement which was not love, not ambition, rather a fearful

consciousness of hazard in the air, she awaited his return

Meanwhile her father aiting him also In his house there was an