AUTHOR OF THE ROMANCE OF THE FOREST, ITC. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPER-PLATES. THE FOURTH EDITION. IN FOUR VOLUMES. Fate fits on these dark battlements, and frowns, Her voice, in fullen echoes through the courts, VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. G. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1799. THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPH O. CHAP. I. home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace and plenty, where, THOMSON. ON the pleafant banks of the Garonne, in the province of Gafcony, ftood, in the year 1584, the chateau of Monfieur St. Aubert. From its windows were seen the pastoral landscapes of Guienne and Gascony stretching along the river, gay with luxuriant woods and vines, and plantations of olives. To the fouth, the view was bounded by the majestic Pyrenées, whose fummits, veiled in clouds, or exhibiting VOL. I. B |