Chapter 28 No.28

"He looks abroad, and soon appears,

O'er Horncliffe-hill, a plump of spears,

Beneath a pennon gay."

Marmion.

The sharp sounds of the supper-bell were ringing along the gallery, as Miss Plowden gained the gloomy passage; and she quickened her steps to join the ladies, in order that no further suspicions might be excited by her absence.-A