would by no means conſent. He conducted him to the cottage at which he had himſelf been in the morning, and obtained leave of the good people to accommodate Jolet for the night, intending to return in the morning, and purſue his journey to the Britiſh camp, which was at a ſhort diſtance from this place.
The reſt of the day, though relieved by the converſation of Jolet, appeared to Glanville extremely tedious; and he hailed, with no ſmall degree of pleaſure, the arrival of the moment in which he was to return to the caſtle.
Though Glanville perſiſted in his refuſal to Jolet’s requeſt of paſſing the night with him, he could not object to his accompanying him part of the way. This requeſt Glanville acceded to, in order to quiet the mind of his foſter-father, which appeared to ſuffer greater agitation than even his own. Farther than the moat, however, he would not permit him to advance. Here he took a ſolemn farewel of him for the night; and Jolet, with reluctance, returned to the hovel, while Glanville entered the ſolitary caſtle.
His entering of this deſerted manſion was marked by the ſame diſturbance as occurred the evening-before; nor had it leſs effect on his mind, which, notwithſtanding the fortitude it had aſſumed, was conſiderably agitated. As before, he aſcended the ſteps, and reached the ſame apartment in which he ſlept. The ſilence of the place, which was interrupted only by the ſtated cries of the bittern, and the ſcreams of the hood-winked bird of night, increaſed the palpitation of his heart. He felt unuſual tremblings, and, had not his limbs ſeemed to forget their accuſtomed office, he would willingly have re-trod his former ſteps, and fled the horrid ſpot. He was rivetted to the place and, however willing, was unable to move. A few minutes reflection reſtored him to himſelf; and his mind became invigorated from the conſciouſneſs of ſelf-rectitude. He employed the intervening time in a ſolemn addreſs to the Divine Being, for ſtrength and ſupport in the approaching hour, that was to diſcloſe, he believed, a
