Chapter 16 -RECRIMINATION.

Thou canst save me,

Thou ought'st! thou must!

I tell thee at his feet

I'll fall a corse, ere mount his bridal bed!

Go choose betwixt my rescue and my grave.

Knowles.-The hunchbach

Notwithstanding the dreadful nature of the events which had occurred during that fatal night, Paul had not forgotten the mortal defiance which had been