feelings. and resolutions, he found that the circumstances of his
going to such and such a place were often the most casual
incidents in nature--the caprice of a moment had carried him there,
and yet he had never sat or stood many minutes till there was the
selfsame being, always in the same position with regard to
himself, as regularly as the shadow is cast from the substance, or
the ray of light from the opposing denser medium.

For instance, he remembered one day of setting out with the
intention of going to attend divine worship in the High Church,
and when, within a short space of its door, he was overtaken by
young Kilpatrick of Closeburn, who was bound to the Grey-Friars
to see his sweetheart, as he said: "and if you will go with me,
Colwan," said he, "I will let you see her too, and then you will be
just as far forward as I am."

George assented at once, and went; and, after taking his seat, he
leaned his head forwards on the pew to repeat over to himself a
short ejaculatory prayer, as had always been his custom on
entering the house of God. When he had done, he lifted his eye
naturally towards that point on his right hand where the fierce
apparition of his brother had been wont to meet his view: there he
was, in the same habit, form, demeanour, and precise point of
distance, as usual! George again laid down his head, and his mind
was so astounded that he had nearly fallen into a swoon. He tried
shortly after to muster up courage to look at the speaker, at the
congregation, and at Captain Kilpatrick's sweetheart in particular;
but the fiendish glances of the young man in the black clothes
were too appalling to be withstood--his eye caught them whether
he was looking that way or not: at length his courage was fairly