lay in the hands of Satan, and who could
hope for deliverance--only from heaven.

That our readers may distinctly understand
all the circumstances of the event
which we are about imperfectly to describe,
it is necessary to state the relative position
of the parties who were engaged in it.
The old clergyman and Schalken were in
the anteroom of which we have already
spoken; Rose lay in the inner chamber,
the door of which was open; and by the
side of the bed, at her urgent desire, stood
her guardian; a candle burned in the bed-
chamber, and three were lighted in the
outer apartment

The old man now cleared his voice, as if
about to commence; but before he had
time to begin, a sudden gust of air blew
out the candle which served to illuminate
the room in which the poor girl lay, and
she, with hurried alarm, exclaimed:

'Godfrey, bring in another candle; the
darkness is unsafe.'

Gerard Douw, forgetting for the moment
her repeated injunctions in the immediate
impulse, stepped from the bedchamber into