MARINA ANGUS
She died
18th of June 1815
at
12 o’clock
midnight.
When Albion had read this he felt a pang of horrible anguish wring his heart and convulse his whole frame. With a loud groan he fell across the tomb and lay there senseless a long time, till at length he was waked from the death-like trance to behold the spirit of Marina, which stood beside him for a moment, and then murmuring, ‘Albion, I am happy, for I am at peace,’ disappeared!
For a few days he lingered round her tomb, and then quitted Strathelleraye, where he was never again heard of.
The reason of Marina’s death I shall briefly relate. Four years after Albion’s departure tidings came to the village that he was dead. The news broke Marina’s faithful heart. The day after, she was no more.
C. B.,
October 12th, 1830.
THE RIVALS
THE RIVALS
A SHORT DRAMA WRITTEN BY
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN YEARS.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ