Parnes and Egaleos seeming to float on the northern horizon, like masses ofdar vapours. The mountain path, which, winding near Pentelicus, has become so noted by the flight of Thrasybulus and the purple brow of Hymettus, marking its wavy outline above the saffron clouds that rose from its sides, illuminated with the golden light of the morning sun;-such were the prominent features of the landscape, which gradually and successively betrayed themselves; while to a prospect so diversified by objects of classic interest, a thousand gradationary tints of light and shade lent their picturesque effect; and a beam effused, a cloud dispersed, produced an evanescent charm, pursued and felt by the imagination and the heart of Ida, to whom the eloquent voice of nature could not speak in vain.

So delicate were her perceptions, so warm was her fancy, so cultivated was

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her taste, and so sensible her soul, that the minutest charm of scenic beauty which met her enquiring eye, the dew whose least tear bathed her fervid brow, the gale whose faint sigh breathed upon her cheek, all brought their separate charms and interests to her fine-toned feelings.-Ida felt, and sighed ;-she could not help reflecting on the sensitive character which nature and education had formed for her, that innate admiration of harmony and order;-that ardent passion for beauty and sublimity, for the forms as for the spirit of nature;

that love of peace, and joy, and social amity, and high intelligence; and all those various capabilities to feel and to bestow felicity, with which she was peculiarly endowed. Nor could she avoid opposing to that blessed and blessing thing, she might have been; the sad and suffering creature which she then was!-The acute miseries of her

recent, the dread afflictions of her present, and the probable privations of her future life, all struck on her heart, and tears of self-commiseration, mingled with those drops with which a rapturous sensibility to all that was lovely in nature, had filled her glistening eyes.

The fugitives had now crossed branch of the Ismenus, and entered a little plain whose velvet surface spread to wards the eastern face of Pentelicus. Here, believing themselves beyond discovery or pursuit, they alighted to partake of some refreshment; and their simple feast concluded, the boys found amusement in gathering wild honey, and the figs and olives, which grew spontaneously, while Kyra, overcome by fatigue, took her usual siesta, and Ida, incapable of repose, sat beneath a projecting rock, and gave herself up to the full flow of varying,

but profound reflection. The timid hope, the tender fear, the changeful anxiety, which agitated her heart for the still undecided fate of her unhappy father, and the future destiny of that dear and beloved little family, whose interests and whose happiness were so intimately blended with every thought and feeling of existence; were succeeded by a natural recurrence to those severe disappointments of the soul, and those acute sufferings of the mind, which belonged only to herself. Desolate and unfriended as she was, where now was the protector which nature assigns to support the weakness and sensibility of woman?-The lover on whom her timid heart could repose ;the friend, with whom it would be so dear even to suffer!-The name of Osmyn involuntarily burst from her lips, while his image and the love he had once professed, occupied her thoughts.

She sought to subdue her lingering weakness, or rather to lose it, in conjectures relative to the mysterious Janissary; it was in vain she attempted to account for a conduct so incongruous in its various points of view, for considered either as the agent of tyranny, as the minister of religion, as a creature breathing the spirit of cruelty, or acting from the dictates of disinterested benevolence, he still equally bade defiance to every supposition relative to those motives which actuated him to a conduct so mysterious and inexplica ble. The confidence of his open nature, united to her hopes, forbade her to suspect treachery where so much apparent kindness had been experienced; for she doubted not, but that the liberation of her father was to have been effected through his means; and his having conveyed to her a valuable ring assured