Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 3

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BY THE AUTHOR OF “BERTRAM,” &c.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.
1820.
MELMOTH.
Juravi lingua, mentem injuratam gero.——
Who brought you first acquainted with the devil?
Shirley’s St Patrick for Ireland.
“I ran on till I had no longer breath or strength, (without perceiving that I was in a dark passage), till I was stopt by a door. In falling against it, I burst it open, and found myself in a low dark room. When I raised myself, for I had fallen on my hands and knees, I looked round, and saw something so singular, as to suspend even my personal anxiety and terror for a moment.