Although the language was unknown to our dreamer, his eye and attention were both strongly caught by the line which the figure seemed thus to press upon his notice, the words of which appeared to blaze with a supernatural light, and remained riveted upon his memory.

As the vision shut his volume, a strain of delightful music seemed to fill the apartment--Lovel started, and became completely awake.

The music, however, was still in his ears, nor ceased till he could distinctly follow the measure of an old Scottish tune.
He sate up in bed, and endeavoured to clear his brain of the phantoms which had disturbed it during this weary night.

The beams of the morning sun streamed through the half-closed shutters, and admitted a distinct light into the apartment.

He looked round upon the hangings,--but the mixed groups of silken and worsted huntsmen were as stationary as tenter-hooks could make them, and only trembled slightly as the early breeze, which found its way through an open crevice of the latticed window, glided along their surface.