THE MONASTERY.

THE

MONASTERY.

A ROMANCE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF " WAVERLEY."

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

SOLD BY J. MURRAY, BOOKSELLER,

ALBEMARLE STREET.

1821.

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THE MONASTERY.

CHAPTER I.

Why, what an intricate impeach is this!
I think you all have drank of Circe's cup.
If here you
hous'd him, here he would have been;
If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly.
Comedy of Errors.

THE course of story, leaving for the present Halbert Glendinning to the guidance of his courage and his fortune, returns to the tower of Glendearg, where matters in the meanwhile took place, with which it is most fitting that the reader should be acquainted.

The meal was prepared at noontide with all the care which Elspeth and Tibb, assisted by the various accommodations which had been supplied from the

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