liquor turn black, and the streams of wine curdle into

loathly gore. This appearance she told to none, not even

to her sister. Moreover, there was in her palace a marble

chapel to her former husband, to which she used to pay

singular honours, wreathing it with snowy fillets and festal 10

boughs; from it she thought she heard a voice, the accents

of the dead man calling her, when the darkness of night

was shrouding the earth: and on the roof a lonely owl in

funereal tones kept complaining again and again, and

drawing out wailingly its protracted notes; and a thousand 15