"I," exclaimed Hubert, interrupting him, "shall experience an additional pleasure to what I now feel, in considering, that I have, perhaps, laid the first stone of your future independance." Their repast was now brought in; and after they had partaken of it, they rose to bid each other farewell. The route of Belise towards her relation, lay in an opposite direction to the one destined to be pursued by Edward and Hubert. A lack of words is sometimes the most expressive sign of true regret at parting; such was the separation of Edward with Adolphus and Belise; and as their full hearts pronounced blessings on each other, not the least fervent were those which Adolphus and Belise coupled with the name of the exalted Hubert. CHAP. XIV. Lo! as the surplic'd train drew near The slow sad bell, the sable bier, And while their beam, With trembling stream, Attending tapers faintly dart; Each mould'ring bone, Each sculptur'd stone, Strikes mute instruction to the heart! MALLET. IT would be uninteresting to the reader to accompany Edward and Hubert in their wearisome journey into the German empire suffice it to say, that many unplea sant sant causes conspired to oblige them to pursue the greater part of it on foot; and that, after the expiration of nine long weeks, they found themselves at the port of Hamburg. Here, in the course of a few days, they procured a passage on board a French ship, which had been sent thither to load with merchandize, which she was destined to carry to Newcastle. The harbour of her destination appeared to Edward as desirable a spot for his landing as he could have fixed upon, had he himself been consulted relative to her course; and with a heart light as air, now borne on the buoyant wings of expectation towards his adored Rosalind, he went on board the vessel. For the three first days, their voyage was prosperous; on the evening of the fourth, the English shore having, for the greatest part of the last day, been in view, the Captain made towards it, with an intention, as he said, of coasting it up to the the mouth of the Tyne. About the time of sunset, the weather was remarkably serene for the season of the year; the golden beams of the grand luminary of earth had quivered on the waves, till it had sunk into the obscurity of its watery bed; and the captain, drawing his conclusion from the proverb, had foretold a morning of equal serenity and brilliancy. But proverbs are not always infallible: towards midnight the wind suddenly veered round to the south, it rose in short and angry gusts, and, in the course of a few hours, swelled into a tempestuous hurricane, which drove the vessel off the coast: with the morning a thick rain began to fall, which obstructed all observation at the distance of half a furlong from the ship; the English shore was no longer visible, and the compass their only direction. The gale continued to blow with equal violence throughout the day; a hope was entertained by the mariners, that about the hour it had aris n on the preceding night, it might abate on this; but their expec VOL. III. P expectations were deceived, and the captain pronounced, that if the wind continued to blow twelve hours longer in the same point of the compass that it then did, they should be driven farther into the North Sea. The next night came, and brought with it no change but that of the wind having veered in a trifling degree to the westward. Again the morning rose, and ushered in a day equally stormy as the preceding one had been; at every fresh gust the billows ran mountains high, and the vessel truly seemed the sport of the waves, which, at intervals, rolled in curling circles over the deck, breathing, as it were, vollies of smoke in their hasty passage. The wind now flew to the eastward of the south; all power of directing the course of the ship was at an end, and she had nothing to trust to but the chance of escaping rocks and sands. In the afternoon, a leak of considerable size was discovered in the hold; the pumps were im mediately set to work, but their efforts were |