I have deceived you: I have sported with your terrors: I have plotted to destroy your reputation. I come now to remove your errors;

I could not but remark that his narratives, however complex or marvellous, contained no instance sufficiently parallel to those that had befallen ourselves, and in which the solution was applicable to our own case.

I could not but admit their validity, but they shewed, in a new light, the depth of that misfortune in which my brother was plunged.

I could not take a step without hazard of falling to the bottom of the precipice. The path, leading to the summit, was short, but rugged and intricate. Even star-light was excluded by the umbrage, and not the faintest gleam was afforded to guide my steps.

"I opened my eyes and found all about me luminous and glowing. It was the element of heaven that flowed around. Nothing but a fiery stream

I have often shed tears of pleasure at her approach, and pressed her to my bosom in an agony of fondness.

"Your assurances," said he, "are solemn and unanimous; and yet I must deny credit to your assertions, or disbelieve the testimony of my senses, which informed me, when I was half way up the hill, that Catharine was at the bottom." We were confounded at this declaration.

My senses must have been the victims of some inexplicable and momentary phrenzy.

As to myself, my attention was engaged by this occurrence. I could not fail to perceive a shadowy resemblance between it and my father's death. On the latter event, I had frequently reflected; my reflections never conducted me to certainty, but the doubts that existed were not of a tormenting kind.