_This book is dedicated to the memory of one most dear, who saw it grow
to completion with pleasure and approbation, during the last happy
summer of a life since darkened by misfortune. Peace be his!_

_MONFORT HALL._

"Not one friend have we here, not one true heart;
We've nothing but ourselves."

"There's a dark spirit walking in our house,
And swiftly will the destiny close on us.
It drove me hither from my calm asylum;
It lures me forward--in a seraph's shape
I see it near, I see it nearer floating--
It draws, it pulls me with a godlike power,
And, lo, the abyss! and thither am I moving;
I have no power within me--but to move."

"He is the only one we have to fear, he and his father."

COLERIDGE'S _Translation of Schiller's "Wallenstein"_

MIRIAM MONFORT


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