THE

CASTLE CHAPEL.

A Romantic Tale.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

BY

REGINA MARIA ROCHE,

AUTHOR OF THE

CHILDREN OF THE ABBEY; BRIDAL OF DUNAMORE; CLERMONT; DISCARDED
SON; HOUSES OF OSMA AND ALMERIA; MUNSTER COTTAGE BOY;
TRADITION OF THE CASTLE; TRECOTHICK BOWER; MAID

OF THE HAMLET; VICAR OF LANSDOWNE, &C.

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PRINTED FOR

A. K. NEWMAN AND CO. LEADENHALL-STREET.

Shook from his tender trance, and, restless, runs
To glimmering shades, and sympathetic glooms,
Where the dun umbrage o'er the falling stream
Romantic hangs; there, through the pensive dusk,
Strays, in heart-thrilling meditation lost :

Or on the bank

Thrown, amid drooping lilies, swells the breeze
With sighs unceasing, and the brook with tears.
Thus, in deep anguish, he consumes the day,
Nor quits his deep retirement till the moon
Peeps through the chambers of the fleecy east.
Then forth he walks,

Beneath the trembling languish of her beam;

Or while the world,

And all the sons of care, lie hush'd in sleep,
Associates with the midnight shadows drear."

WE left Eugene in a very awkward

pre

dicament in England. What his agita

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tion was, on positively ascertaining the nature of the place into which he had been inveigled, may easily be conceived. Convinced, however, to give way to the feelings produced by the discovery, could answer no good end, but quite the reverse, he constrained himself to appear composed, and in the course of a few days reaped the benefit of the circumstance; it being deemed hardly probable that a person who appeared so collected, could be as described: the doubt led to a conversation, that developing the treachery that had been practised against him, he was forthwith released, with a firm conviction on his mind, that the person to whom he was indebted for what had lately happened, was the same through whose machinations he had already suffered so much, namely, Wilkinson. His impatience to return home was so great, that he did not write another letter, and accordingly arrived most unexpectedly at St. Doulagh's, just five days after the departure of Grace for Strandmore.