The tapestry waved wildly on the wall, till its dusky forms seemed to become animated.

The hunters blew their horns--the stag seemed to fly, the boar to resist, and the hounds to assail the one and pursue the other; the cry of deer, mangled by throttling dogs--the shouts of men, and the clatter of horses' hoofs, seemed at once to surround him--while every group pursued, with all the fury of the chase, the employment in which the artist had represented them as engaged.

Lovel looked on this strange scene devoid of wonder (which seldom intrudes itself upon the sleeping fancy), but with an anxious sensation of awful fear.

At length an individual figure among the tissued huntsmen, as he gazed upon them more fixedly, seemed to leave the arras and to approach the bed of the slumberer.

As he drew near, his figure appeared to alter.