should be wed?--Will you love me as a Christian wife should be loved? My former existence was like a dream,--but now I am awake. If I unite my destiny to yours,--if I abandon my family, my country, my”---- “If you do, how will you be the loser?--your family harasses and confines you--your country would shout to see you at the stake, for you have some heretical feelings about you, Isidora. And for the rest”---- “God!” said the poor victim, clasping her hands, and looking upwards, “God, aid me in this extremity!”--“If I am to wait here only as a witness to your devotions,” said Melmoth with sullen asperity, “my stay will not be long.”--“You cannot leave me, then, to struggle with fear and perplexity alone! How is it possible for me to escape, even if”---- “By whatever means I possess of entering this place and retiring unobserved,--by the same you may effect your escape. If you have resolution, the effort will cost you little,--if love,--nothing. Speak, shall I be here at this hour to-morrow night, to conduct you to liberty and”---- Safety he would have added, but his voice faultered. “_To-morrow night_,” said Isidora, after a long pause, and in accents almost inarticulate. She closed the casement as she spoke, and Melmoth slowly departed. END OF THIRD VOLUME. Transcriber’s Note: The following is a list of corrections made to the original. The first line is the original line, the second the corrected one. CHILDREN. CHILDREN.” say to heaven, We have a sun though your’s is set;--the solemn and say to heaven, We have a sun though yours is set;--the solemn and the last garment on your person, and the last denier in your purse. the last garment on your person, and the last denier in your purse.” matted coil of adders, had there first recieved the bloody homage of the matted coil of adders, had there first received the bloody homage of the For many a night these canoes might be seen glancing past each other “For many a night these canoes might be seen glancing past each other regularity of these phœnomena, in the climate she inhabited, divested regularity of these phænomena, in the climate she inhabited, divested But to this question he could obtain no satisfactory answer; and it was “But to this question he could obtain no satisfactory answer; and it was smile at her as she bounded after him, breathles and glowing with newly smile at her as she bounded after him, breathless and glowing with newly torn away.” torn away. surmounted by a trident.--that is the temple of Maha-deva, a goddess who surmounted by a trident,--that is the temple of Maha-deva, a goddess who made such an an artless transition from profound and meditative grief to made such an artless transition from profound and meditative grief to Her glowing features, as she turned them toward him, with an expression “Her glowing features, as she turned them toward him, with an expression CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XVII.