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lamp; it then cast a look of benign thankfulness towards Maria, and disappeared. Overcome with joy, the poor girl was suddenly transported under the church porch, where the first thing that struck her sight, was the skeleton, mouldering away into a heap of dust.
Hour of Death foretold by an Apparition.
A youth of sixteen, of a weakly constitution and delicate nerves, but in other respects quite healthy, quitted his room in the dusk of the evening, but suddenly returned with a face pale as death and looks betraying the greatest terror, and in a tremulous voice told a fellow student who lived in the same room with him, that he should die at nine o'clock in the morning of the day after the next.
All enquiries as to the cause of his belief, had hitherto proved abortive. He now disclosed to one of his friends, but in the the strictest confidence, that the preceeding evening, on quitting his room, he had seen a figure in white, which beckoned to him, and at the same moment a voice pronounced the words—'The day after to morrow, at nine it the morning, thou shalt die!' and the fate thus predicted nothing could enable him to escape. He now proceeded to set his house in order, made his will and gave particular direction for his funeral.
