The heiress of Bruges Author:Thomas Colley Grattan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Our readers will now, perhaps not unwillingly, turn a reverting glance from those scenes of outward tumult, to the less boisterous agitations of ... more »the castle within, where our heroine has been, for a full fortnight, left to the endurance of her conflicting anxieties. What she suffered on the first two days of her captivity was but little relieved during those which followed, for a perpetual state of suspense and mystery kept alive the inquietude so actively awakened. We last left her, flying from the picture gallery to the refuge of her own apartment. But when the loud 'larums of the day had subsided,, Theresa felt a state of analogous repose insensibly stealing on her. Seated at her bedroom window once more she gazed out on thebeautiful moonlight scene; and a sympathetic tone of composure gradually blended with her fevered thoughts. Reverting rapidly to all that had passed in the eventful week, astonished at the multiplicity of feelings brought at once into life, and of events springing up around her, all the acuteness of suffering which had accompanied each shifting change was absorbed in the mellow composure of her present state. She leant on the casement and looked out on the moon-lit indistinctness of the landscape, touched in all its lines and edges with the silvery tinge of fairy land. The very shadows were traversed with a filmy light which neutralized the gloom; and the whole aspect of external nature harmonized with, if it did not create, the complacency of Theresa's breast. Her eyes turned instinctively towards the high walls of the Wizard's Tower, a part of which projected into the court-yard and was visible close to her casement; and she listened with tremulous anxiety for the promised sounds of that voice which was sure to penetrate the recesses of h...« less