OR, A TALE OF OTHER TIMES. IN THREE VOLUMES. BY SOPHIA LEE, AUTHOR OF CANTERBURY TALES, LIFE OF A LOVER, &c. "Are not these woods "More free from peril than the envious court? "Here feel we but the penalty of Adam- "The seasons' difference." SIXTH EDITION. VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR A. K. NEWMAN AND CO. LEADENHALL-STREET. THE RECESS. PART III. FROM this temporary death I was at last recalled by a sound that made me wish it had been indeed eternal-the voice, the tremendous voice of Williams. Of what horrors was my soul instantly susceptible! What dreadful images swam before those eyes I hardly durst open! Fearfully at length I cast them around-I saw I had been conveyed into the great room of our Recess, sacred once to piety and innocence, but now, alas! the shelter of rapine, perhaps of murder. A number of ill-looking ruffians stood ready to fulfil the worst com-mands of their ferocious confederate, who, with malignant joy, contemplated two hopeless victims unpitying Heaven seemed |