THE PRIEST:

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

"Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves,

"Who all the sacred mysteries of Heaven

"To their own vile advantages shall turn

"Of lucre and ambition, and the truth

"With superstitions and traditions taint."--Milton.

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"Youth no less becomes

The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
Importing health and graveness.”

"This is mere madness,

And thus awhile the fit will work on him;
Anon as patient as a female dove,

When first her golden couplets are disclosed,
His silence will sit drooping."

Shakspeare.

THESE are right pleasant times for

the damsels of the Castle, and not abundantly irksome to my Lady's Page," said Philip Altham to Lewen, after a day spent in hunting, the Lady Blanche Evelyn having been an inmate in her father's house nearly a fortnight. “I question if its walls ever rang to more

blithe sounds than the gleesome laugh of the Countess' gentlewoman, or echoed a lighter measure than their gentle tripping along the galleries. And yet, verily, there are those who preserve their gravity and their sadness in the midst of all our revels, like a black cloud scudding athwart the azure splendor of a noontide heaven, impressing a frown on the face of nature, even whilst the gay scene flings joy and gladness over the whole earth, and would woo it to display a thousand dimples."

Lewen smiled; it was a smile of effort-an appropriation of the Page's remark to himself.

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They whose countenances lower ominously over the scenes which adapt themselves so exquisitely to your gay temperament, are the Countess of Arding and her Confessor, I imagine," said he. "Oh, no, no!" replied Altham quickly. "These be they who are clad,