thing pleasurable arose before her observation, showed that she had not always been a total stranger to joy.

From the period of her first taking up her abode at the retreat, she had never changed the character of her habiliments of mourning. She was now near a hundred years old, yet she was in full possession of all her faculties. Locks, white as the driven snow, which escaped from under a tiara made of black crape, and the deep lines-more from sorrow than even age-upon her serious and stedfast visage, only gave the indication of years, or showed the mark of time, which had still left the remains of considerable charms.

The Lady-Maiden Bona had been educated at "the Retreat," under the superintendance of "Our Lady of Wo," for whom she entertained the deepest respect and reverence. Since her abduction from her home, she had been a frequent visiter to the monastery, and the consolatory and instructive converse of its very reverent lady abbess,soothed her mind and spirits, and had greatly to do in restoring their

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tone, which had received so great a shock by that transaction.

The lady abbess was now very ill, which induced the gentle lady-maiden to be a daily visiter to the retreat, whither she was attended by the old house-keeper, Agatha, and the armourer, who marched in warlike array, at the head of a score of the Lord Godolphin's stoutest retainers, for the effectual protection of the young lady.

These visits continued from day to day, without any particular alteration taking place. in the health of the lady-abbess, or any thing occurring worth recording, while time waned on, when the messenger was expected back from his journey to the Holy Land.

END OF VOL. I.

J. Evans, Printer, 91, Bartholomew Close, London.

CRAVEN DERBY;

OR,

THE LORDSHIP BY TENURE.

The Ladye of the Rose:

AN HISTORICAL

Legend,

RELATING TO THE

GREAT FOUNDER OF THE NOBLE HOUSE OF

DARBYE.

VOL. II.

OR,

THE LORDSHIP BY TENURE,

INCLUDES

The Ladye of the Rose:

AN HISTORICAL

Legend,

KELATING TO THE

GREAT FOUNDER OF THE NOBLE HOUSE OF DARBYE.

"Palmam qui meruit ferat."

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"CROCKFORD'S; OR, LIFE IN THE WEST."

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

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1832-3.