Fastening her door, she dropped on a sofa, and exclaimed, "Alas, alas! one day too late at Niagara."

CHAPTER XXIX.

"Flow on forever in thy glorious robe

Of terror and of beauty. Yea, flow on,

Unfathomed and resistless! God hath set

His rainbow on thy forehead, and the cloud

Mantled around thy feet.

Methinks, to tint

Thy glorious features with our pencil's point,

Or woo thee to the tablet of a song,