Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793 edition. Excerpt: ... heard of since their departure with their lady. Still more alarmed by this intelligence he rode himself in pursuit, yet not knowing which course, to take. Several days were employed in a fruitless search; no footstep of her Might could be traced. CHAPt I " CHAPTER XII. MARY, in the mean time, suffered all the terror which her situation could excite. On her way, to Dunbayne, (he had been overtaken by a party of armed men, who seized her bridle, and after engaging her servants in a feigned resistance, carried her off" senseless. On recovering, she found herself travelling through a forest, whose glooms were deepened by the shades of night. The moon which was now up, glancing through the trees, served to shew the dreary aspect of the place, and the number of men who surrounded her;;, and she was seized with a terror that almost deprived her of reason. They travelled all night, during which a profound silence was observed. At the dawn of day stie found herself on the M, 6 skirts; skirts of a heath, to whose wide desolation her eye could discover no limits. Before they entered on the waste, they halted at the entrance of a cave, formed in a rock, which was overhung with pine and fir; where, spreading their breakfast on the grass, they offered refreshments to Mary, whose mind was too much distracted to suffer her to partake of them. She implored them in the most moving accents, to tell her from whom they came, and whither they were carrying her; but they were insensible to her tears and her entreaties and me was compelled to await, in silent terror, the extremity of her fate. They pursued their journey over the wilds, and towards the close of day approached the ruins of an abbey, whose broken arches and lonely towers arose in gloomy..."
