Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Temperance -- Fiction
After a few hours of sound slumber he awoke next morning to find the
sun already high in the heavens, and his own midnight vision to
appear in the broad light of day but as a half-forgotten dream. It
was, however, forcibly brought to his recollection during the morning
by Lady Rosamond, who, much to his surprise, appeared towards midday,
in company with her husband, telling him that they had travelled from
Caer Caradoc on the previous day as far as a lonely hamlet some three
or four miles distant from Glyn Helen, where they had rested for the
night, or rather for so much of it as remained to them after a
midnight visit to the Pool beneath Craig Aran. "You were surely not
at the Pool?" exclaimed the chaplain. "It is true that I myself
repaired thither at your ladyship's urgent entreaty; but I did not
understand that you also purposed to come and prove the truth of your
legend, and I verily believed myself to be the only human being amid
such midnight desolation." "I know right well you thought so,"
answered Lady Rosamond calmly; "and aware that you were enjoying the
sensation to the full--for such is the selfishness of man--I would
not for worlds break the spell by intruding upon you my own giddy and
light-hearted personality. We concealed ourselves in a snug niche in
the rock on the farther side of the lake--having seen your evident
desire for, and belief in, your own solitude--whence we had as good a
view of the fair vision as you doubtless had yourself, and whence we
saw you steal forth spellbound from your own retreat after the maiden
had plunged once more beneath the waters, and heard you mutter
certain dark sayings upon the brink, though whether exorcisms upon
the evil thing, or imploring invitations to so wondrous an apparition
to again reveal herself, we were unable to tell. Nevertheless, we
beheld clearly enough how your
"'Eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,'
Did 'glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,'
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