------------------------------------------------------------------------ Feudal Tyrants; or The Counts of Carlsheim and Sargans. Vol. III ◆ ◆ ◆ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FEUDAL TYRANTS; OR, _The Counts of Carlsheim and Sargans_. A ROMANCE. _TAKEN FROM THE GERMAN._ IN FOUR VOLUMES. ◆ ◆ ◆ BY M. G. LEWIS, AUTHOR OF _The Bravo of Venice, Adelgitha, Rugantino, &c._ ◆ ◆ ◆ VOL. III. ═══════════════════ _SECOND EDITION_. ═══════════════════ The portals sound, and pacing forth With stately steps and slow, High potentates, and dames of regal birth, And mitred fathers in long order go. — GRAY. ══════════════════════════════════ London: Printed by D. N. SHURY, Berwick-Street, Soho, FOR J. F. HUGHES, WIGMORE STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE. ── 1807 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FEUDAL TYRANTS, &c. &c. &c. ═════════════════════ PART THE FIFTH. ═════════════════════ COUNT DONAT’s DAUGHTERS. PART II. ◆ ◆ ◆ MEMOIRS Found in the Cell of a Nun, after her Decease, in the Convent of Zurich. Since Amabel Bloomberg traced the letters which will be found with this, how many years have elapsed! how many changes have taken place! How many persons are now insensible dust, who are described as agitated with such anxious fears and ardent hopes, by the pens of Amabel and the Damsels of Sargans! Accident has also made me mistress of the letters of those unfortunate sisters. Accident, did I say? Surely, it was something more than mere chance, which brought them into the hands of her, who is most able to supply that chasm, which otherwise would have been left in these adventures. To undertake this task I have both leisure and information sufficient. My fate was too closely united with that of the sisters, to permit the slightest particular concerning them to be concealed from me; and jointly with theirs will my name be handed down to posterity.