“ Know then that the spacious moralist, Linmore proved himself a villian. He came to our dwelling and found peace, innocence, and love, he saw a fond pair as nature ever designed for each other; what then was that principle, that could excite the vile design to mar such bliss? Oh what a void, I felt in my breast, when suspicion pointed to Ellinor's dishonour. Start not, my jealousy was well founded: virtue was subdued and vice triumphant! One fatal day pretending some hours absence, I concealed myself at home. I saw her enter the chamber and in few moments Linmore followed. ”

“ Thus misery weighs down my declining years; and I live in torturing doubt as to my child, my Ellinor. Last night I was diseovered by some peasants at my favourite occupation in the Abbey ruins. I will not be a theme for babbling tongues; I have taken my old domestic with me, and I quit this place, perhaps, for ever.———Will you, then, pity a miserable old man, and commiserate his fate. ”

“ George was affected, and Mental perceived the emotions he had caused. "Nay. nay," said he, "I meant not to sinuate that I am peculiarly wretched; it is the common lot, the destiny of man.— If the detail would not be thought tiresome, there are particulars in my own experience, that might perhaps, afford you a lessen. I have not for years talked of myself to others; but if you would like to listen to my tale, nor hold your time ill spent—"
"I should ill deserve so great a favour,' interrupted Barnwell, "if I could estimate its worth no better." ”

“ He would eat nothing that had ever enjoyed life: nothing in which sugar was an ingredient; and his drink was water. He never smiled, and the only pleasure he appeared to enjoy, was the triumph of argument. ”

“ She left her bed and opening the casement she heard them more distinctly, and was convinced they came from the Abbey.———In a few moments all was silent, and she beheld a lighted torch borne along the ruins! but the night was too dark to discern the person that carried it. That music was not imaginary, she was convinced; but for what purpose any one would ramble among the mouldering tombs, she had yet to learn. In the morning, terrified by the events of the night. ”

“ Barnwell's uncle, mother, and the tender-hearted Eliza, to whom he eommunicated the melancholy tale, united in commiserating the sufferings of a man, whose life, almost from his infancy, had been marked with disappointment and sorrow.
In a few days George quitted his uncle's hospitable roof, which still remained the asylum of his mother and Eliza. Sir James had given his nephew three thousand pounds, and a further seven thousand was to be given at the expiration of the time for which he was articled, on condition of his being admitted into a share of the concern. ”

“ Linmore, and he seemed to receive an equal satisfaction in ours. His paintings were the ornaments of our room, and the marks of his favour in our company. We passed a year in the utmost bliss I ever saw on earth.—In the course of this period, Mr Nutting died, and smitten with the injustice of possessing a fortune which Ellinor's conduct had bestowed on him, on his death bed made a Will, by which she regained her right, and we became completely independant. My little Elinor was now three years old, and my happiness appeared complete.— But clouds soon darkened the Sunshine of prosperity. ”

“ George asked the name of the owner? "Mr. Mental, the cynic whom you saw yesterday at my house. What do you start at, nephew?"———"Nothing Sir. (replied the youth, hesitating.) but Mr Mental is a strange man."———"Ah! God forgive him, (said Joseph,) if all that people say be true."———"God cannot forgive him, (rejoined the Chaplain) he is an Atheist." "He is undoubted a singular being, (said the Knight,) and people will talk, although nobody, it secms, knows who or what he is. But I have heard old men. who remember his first coming to reside here, whisper strange stories." ”

“ I in general kept close at home all day, and walked among the ruins when others slept. Among a few other memorandums of former bliss, I had reserved my dear Ellinor's harp—it had been her delight. Annexed to these memoirs you will find some pieces of poctry which I composed at midnight in the Abbey: they relate to my dear Ellinor. Let this memorandum sometimes claim a place in your thoughts. (It was a miniature of Mental done in his youth; and how unlike his present appearance! George placed it in his bosom, and resumed Mental's narrative.) ”

“ The grief of this aimiable family for their irreparable loss, is better felt than discribed. Sir James was the first to call the attention of his sister in law from the tomb, which held her affections, to the duties she owed herself, her children, aud society. "I am a lone man, (said the Knight) and with the blessing of Heaven, have acquired by my honest endeavours more riches than shall ever spend.———My brother, I know, accumulated in another way ”

“ Were we in the forests of Germany, I should be induced to think that it covers the door of some subterraneous retreat.."———"Aye Sir. (said Joseph, an aged domestic of the Knight's) you are in the right; to be sure it is no concern of mine, but if I was a Magistrate, this here monument should be pulled down, and dug under, and my life on it, murder lies at the bottom."———"That cannot be done without the consent of the owner, (said Sir James) or some better grounds of suspicion than we have at present."———Do not you own these ruins, Sir?" said George, "Not this part of them ”

“ Eliza grew impatient, at length she heard footsteps approaching!—She left her retreat, thinking to meet her brother when a form muffled in a long black cloak, and masked, met her at the entrance of the Aisle. She screamed !—In an instant George was at her elbow; but the cause of her alarm had vanished. "Surely I cannot be deceived, (said Barnwell,) it was a man; I saw him distinctly; a black cloak and mask were lying on the tomb, which you described from your dream ”

“ Nutting whose sanctity and upright conduct had been so frequently proclaimed in the hearing of the dying man, that he requested to see him, and to him made an ample confession of his crimcs, while he derived from his discourse a pleasing consolation. There was only one object living, for whom, in his present situation, he felt any concern ”