. The astrologer of the nineteenth century . : repose, indeed, wouldhave been impossible ! The sounds that soon after midnight beganto issue from the apartment of the wanderer, were at first of a de-scription not to alarm, but they were now exchanged for others ofindescribable horror. In a short time, the sounds became so terri-ble, that scarcely had the awful warning of the wanderer power towithhold them from attempting to burst into the room. These noiseswere of a mixed and most indescribable kind. They could not dis-tinguish whether they were the shrieks of supplication, or the yell ofblasp
. The astrologer of the nineteenth century . : repose, indeed, wouldhave been impossible ! The sounds that soon after midnight beganto issue from the apartment of the wanderer, were at first of a de-scription not to alarm, but they were now exchanged for others ofindescribable horror. In a short time, the sounds became so terri-ble, that scarcely had the awful warning of the wanderer power towithhold them from attempting to burst into the room. These noiseswere of a mixed and most indescribable kind. They could not dis-tinguish whether they were the shrieks of supplication, or the yell ofblasphemy: they hoped inwardly they might be the former. To-wards morning the sounds suddenly ceased ; they were stilled as in amoment. The silence that succeeded seemed to them, for a few mo-ments, more terrible than all that preceded. After consulting eachother by a glance, they hastened together to the apartment. Theyentered !—IT WAS EMPTY!—Not a vestige of its last in-habitant REMAINED, OR WAS TO BE TRACED WITHIN. 77 ILLUSTRATION, No. IV. CIRCLE I.—SECT. III. 3Ltfe in ©eatf); or, t&e £pectit WLiit. A gentleman of Bavaria, of a noble family, was so afflicted at thedeath of his wife, that, unable to bear the company of^ any otherperson, he gave himself entirely up to a solitary way of living. r Thiswas the more remarkable in him, as he had been a man of jovialhabits, fond of his wine and visitors, and impatient of having hisnumerous indulgences contradicted. But in the same temper, per-haps, might be found the cause of his sorrow; for, though he wouldbe impatient with his wife, as with others, yet he loved her, as oneof the gentlest wills he had; and the sweet and unaffected face whichshe always turned round upon his anger might have been a thingmore easy for him to trespass upon while living, than to forget whendead and gone. His very anger towards her, compared with thattowards others, was a relief to him: and rather a wish to refresh 78 THE ASTROLOOER OF THE NINETEENTH
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