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London, England, 1820-04-05 00:00:00

had Mann aentlituting seen a White Lily
ring by herself in the giro. wringing her tomtit
sad lamenting, and vanishing into thin air alter, lir
drew Gear. ()awe had he heard her voices, The
first of these apparition' wee nothing but what wet
quite in cunfirmity with the popular belief cnocern-
lug the mystics, character of the Hallowed rett :
the other, the apparitiou of the White Ludy, we.
• circumitatice more peculiar. The mann-, e.,.t
oreasiota of the vision coincided with gull cutafirmed
the belief of the country people. that a creature at
some mysterious nature welched otter the fortonst
of the house of Avenel. Filled with CO* Lt: of
young Hilbert, in his love fur the urph u. or tii.:
lineage, dares to seek the scene of the White La,!)
supposed abode, and to try the efficacy of a 'inn:
which. as she had herself told him, possessed t!c
power of commatiding her sppeerance.
The solitude of the tower of Glendearg it
broken, at the beginning of this second volume,
by the arrival of • succession of visitors. Or these
the first ere the miller of the monastery (old ILI.-
per is his name) and his daughter, a rustic
and coquette, My.ie Hopper, the Queen of ni'
)lay-labs ou the borders of the Tweed. The to
lees journey has been undertaken wilily with
view of looking after his avaletarts, hot the loopt-
tality of widow Glenditining is soon *armed nun
the excess of cordiality. by is Maims a kids .1)111;a
into her heed of ',tarrying Halbert and Mien% slit
SO
putting a stop to those w,lil and ousel tied loud.
ings after travel and adventure. which she is *frigid
may soon deprive her of the (wormy of it'.,
The miller Serino to have no objection. to this itat,
which he soon detects ; and on his return ti.
mill, I behind him his blooming 11411'1,1.1, n.
spend a few weeks at the tower: The affecoitni.
the !Maid of the 51111, however, are destined to
captivated by a more courtly swain.
Tail is Sir I'iercie Shaftoti, r gallant if the
h;gliest &Aunt of the day, from the stately co,art of
the virgin quern of Englatid ; whu, 111 come,.
quence of his having beet' implicated to souse net
the plots of the Cath!ilie Noblemen 01 the norther,
counties. is forced to seek refuge for a serum. Irani
the vigilance of the Eioglith land sot the
territory ..f Scotland. Th.. elwe cuoinexion between
Regent Nlurray and the Gavertimetit ol Elisabeth,
prevents hun bum putting himself within easel, .4
the Scottish Court. but he seeks and olottoos such
•soirance of safely se the Monks sit' MOMS" Oa/
he able to afford to a good Catholic. suffering
wider the effects of Ins sverei iiii to the new Joe-
Mlle of Protestaittism. The ;Musks, hoarser, 41411 e
not tape, ly set:else the fugitive withiu the walls a
their nunia-trry, but they COW mend hum to the
hospitality of their remote- 'tassel in the tower of
Gletillearg, and lie arrives there oar tine summer
morning, under the guillatice of d hold tenderer.
Christie of the wirindmi
of Deloraiue). to astinaldi all the Natives with Ins
lialignised fopperies, and above all. toaresk
havoc M the turceptible heart of Myviat flappre.
This niaideu is by far the best Siiottoth les.te tie
author his ever painted. She nispires, indeed, leas
respect than Jeanie Deans. but she is infinitely unto
captivating; maid, ou the whole, her love fur she gay
Sir Piercue Shafton. and his mulberry-collier's! v-I.e
vets, 'lathed with white statist, us viewed by the trade e
with more sympathy that, the attachment of Jo.we
to Reuben Butler, the Donsime Ll'illertoise At.
customer' only to she sight of coutitry heed food
border marauders, she has the misfortune to coo..
template Sir Psercie in one of his most irresietiltte
suits, and gazes so long that her whole a a., lutes
itself among the lour* exhibited by that glowing
Phobia'. The Knight. in the seiteirtawhile, is tor
from dreaming of the effect his charms are pewilue.-
ing on the heart of the " Aluleittlinary
(fur so in his Euphuistic tongue he calls is.). be
condescends to make his coats to Ise atea
than the young Lady Avenel, rood egret that is
merely pour passer le tempt. Alley listens rite
fine hyperbolical uuiutelhdible phraseology then ~,
fashiou among the dandies of England, wills lair-
feet indiffereiwe ; but not an her lover, flalawet
Glentlitsising. Stung to madness by the cool con-
tempt with which himself is treated hy the stew or-
mate of his paternal tower, jealous of the
effect of his finery So the eyes of id. mistress, the
boy does all he cats to provoke a ifeastrel, but ass
vain. At list he has recourte 'tore mew, to tier
well-known spell, and the White Leily of the
Fountion. She gives Wan a silver brilliant from !we
hair. she aught of which, she assures him. cull tfer-
lushly rotate the wrath of the stranger ; and 1111.111 pert
is nut long of trying the efficacy of this eels...het I.
The history a this chimed influence is u. t es-
planted ; but the moment Sir Piercie • era the bod-
kin. certain it is hos rage passes ail Istrunds, and a
challenge forthwith is glens and feceived, tit tight
out the quarrel at slay-break in the glen. Thalamic
day the Abbot of Melrose comet SO ~arson to meet
Sir Piercie at the Tower. mud the vitit it described
with much truth wit humour.
(To ia wastfaited