The Fool of Quality (Volume 4); Or, the History of Henry, Earl of Moreland (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: little Ned behind me alfo, I mide the beft of my way through the oppofite thicket. As my terrors continued, I continued to run, till I was all in a glow and fainc with fatigue; but ftill keeping'forward, though flower and flower, God conducted me within fight of the parfonage-houfe of Mr. Catharines, which I reached with. much difficulty, and then funk away oa the threfhold. I knew nothing further of what pafTed tilt I found myfelf in a warm though coarfe bed, with one woman holding a bottle of falts to my nofe, and another prefenting me with a cordial. I looked about and found myfelf fomethiag revived.; but, on the fight of fome meat which was brought to me, I again fainted. Within fome hours after, I was feizcd with pains in all my bones, and fell into a raging fever. Mr. Catharines., who .was phyiician to the bodies as well as fouls of all his flock, vifited and pre- icribed for me, and had me attended with great humanity. On the third night I dreamed, that an invifible hand came, and, feizing me by a fingle hair of my head, hurried me aloft, through the regions of the air, till it B 2 helheld me right over a fiery gulf, in the pinnacles of whofe flames a variety of daemons appeared to hover, the horrid- nefs of whofe figures was undefcribable to ears of flefh and blood. They all feem- ed to ftruggle toward me, and to ftretch forth their fangs to receive me; while my hnfband, Guilliaume, afcended fwift- ly in the midft, and, rufliing up with a pair of fheers, cut the hair that with.held me in twain; fo down I thought I fell, and, .giving a great fhriek, I awakened to darknefs and inexpreflible horrors. Though no light was in the room, my confcii us fpirit fupplied the office. All my tranfjieffions arofe minutely and dif- tinfily to my memory. The.y ap...