Brotherly Love.

depth of his love was manifest in this , because Mi's . St Claire scarcely endeavoured to conceal her aversion towards him . There ivere only two circumstances that prevented her openly insulting him , the first was that Ida , though gentle and submissive on other points , exliibited a determination in reference to Simon , ivhich astonished her ; and the second was ,

that it was reputed that Simon ivas possessed of considerable . personal property . This latter circumstance woidd not of itself have been sufficient to have surmounted her aversion to him , but as she and her daughter were in a state of only moderate means , it was not without some weight . Indeed , as the good lady began to ponder on this point , she began to give her daughter credit for more good sense than she at first suspected in her

infatuated attachment , as she ivas accustomed to express herself , and arrived at the conclusion that it was his money ivliich accounted for Ida ' s strange predilection for Simon . The reader is not to consider that Mrs . St . Claire , was so deficient in perspecacity in her deduction with reference to Ida . She merely fell into a common errorwhich is of dailoccurence ivith the most sensible

, y , namely , judging of others by themselves . In the emergency in which she was placed , a thought suddenly occurred to Ida ; it was no other than to visit a strange being , whose place of abode and eccentricities had acquired for him the designation of the Maniac of the Mount .

We must revert , for a short time , to Simon Le Trouve , whom Ave left in the church , under mingled feelings of fear and surprise , that for the instant suspended the bitterness of spirit produced by his recent humiliation . The object which he beheld was one , which , seen in the uncertain light , might well excite these emotions . It was the form of a man worn almost to a skeletonthe pallor of ivhose features gave him a corpse-like

appear-, ance , but whose eyes emitted a wild and unearthly lustre , and ivhose hair , Avhich was perfectly Avhite , fell in long matted locks down his shoulders . He was attired in a loose gown that descended to his feet , and which was confined at the waist by a piece of cord . There ivas no vestige of any other s-avmfiut . flisi . pvi . ihlp .

The apparition appeared not to notice Simon , sweeping by him with a shadowy motion , and a noiseless tread ivhich aivoke no echo in the deserted aisle . When he reached the extreme end of the edifice , he prostrated himself before a small mural monument , which had apparently been erected for some years , and burying his face in his hands , remained in that attitude ivithout sound or gesture .

For sometime Simon Avas unable to collect his mental faculties , and a conviction that he ivas in . the presence of a heing of the other Avorld became impressed on his imagination . He would have accosted the apparition in some form of appeal , such as he had heard prescribed by the superstitious in addressing the spirits of the departed , but . his memory failed him , his powers of utterance ivere suspended , and a

cold clammy perspiration burst from his pores . What effect a . continuance of this state might have had on the young man ' s reason it is difficult to say , but he was soon relieved from his apprehension of