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The eneral influence of

superstition; but, in the present instance, such strong correlative

circumstances appeared, as compelled even incredulity to yield He had

hie and awful sounds in the forsaken southern

buildings; he received from his father a dreadful secret relative to

them--a secret in which his honor, nay even his life, was bound up

His father had also confessed, that he had himself there seen

appearances which he could never after remember without horror, and

which had occasioned him to quit that part of the castle All these

recollections presented to Ferdinand a chain of evidence too powerful

to be resisted; and he could not doubt that the spirit of the dead had

for once been pereance on the descendants of the ree of horror, such as no

apprehension of mortal powers could have excited; and he determined,

if possible, to prevail on Peter to pass the hours of eon The strictness of Peter's fidelity yielded to the

persuasions of Ferdinand, though no bribe could tempt hi an escape Ferdinand passed

the day in lingering anxious expectation, and the return of night

brought Peter to the dungeon His kindness exposed hier

which he had not foreseen; for when seated in the dungeon alone with

his prisoner, how easily ht that prisoner have conquered him and