- dered last night, and that your ghost appeared
near the church." Mortimer, eagerly taking hold of the figure that stood before him, and feeling the same hard muscular arms, and examining him with an accuracy that evidently surprized the object of scrutiny; "do you know, Hamilton, I thought you was dead: this notion operated so strongly upon me, that I was convinced I had seen your ghost." "But," replied the other, "my dearest Charlotte, administer to my beloved angel." "The same idea," said Mortimer, now more master of himself, "operated upon my sister." Charlotte now reminded them of their being in Maria's apartment, in circumstances, which from her suggestion, they first recollected; and on seeing marks of re-*animation, before Maria could again distinguish her lover, they withdrew. Mor-
