Castle Spectre-Matthew Lewis

0:00Act 1 of the Castle Spectre by Matthew Lewis This is a Libravox recording. All Libravox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Libravox.org. The Castle Spectre, a drama in 5X by Matthew Lewis. Dramatis Personai Osmond Red by Nima Reginald Red by David Olsen Percy Red by Thomas Peter Father Philip Red by Son of the Exiles Motley Red by Todd Kenrek Red by Patrick Seville Saïp Red by Sandra Hassan Red by K-hand Muley Red by Kieran Metz Alaric Red by recording person

1:00Alan Red by Craig Franklin Edrick Red by Eva Davis Harold Red by Tony Addison Corus Red by Alan Napstone Angela Red by Leanne Yeh Ellis Red by Sonia Evalina Red by Kylinda And narrated by Chuck Williamson Prologue Far from the haunts of men, a vice the foe The moon struck child of genius and of woe First in each magic spell, and dear to fame A fair and chantrous dwells, romance her name She loathes the sun, or blazing tapers light The moonbeam landscape and temptuous night Alone she loathes and oft with glimmering lamp Near Graves' new opened, or midst Dungeons' damp Three are forest, ruined isles, and haunted towers

2:02For loran she roathes and raves away the hours A nun when storms how loud and lashed the deep Desperate she climbs the sea rocks, beat lean steep Their wildly strikes her harps fantastic strings Tells to the moon how grief her bosom rings And while her strange song chants fictitious ills In wounded hearts oblivions, bombed the stills A youth who yet has lived enough to know That life has thorns and tastes the cup of woe As late near Conway's timeboat towers he strayed Envoked this bright enthusiast, magic aid His prayer was heard, with arms and boosom bear Eyes flashing fire, loose robes and streaming hair Her heart all anguish and her soul all flame Swift as her thoughts, the lovely maniac came I heaved her breasts, which struggling passions rent

3:05As pressed to give some fear-fraught mystery vent And offed with anxious glance and altered face Trambling with terror she relaxed her pace And stopped and listened, then with heried tread Onwards again she rust yet backwards bent her head As if from murderous swords or flowing fiend she fled Soon as near Conway's walls her footsteps drew She bade the youth their ancient state renew Eager he sped the fallen towers to rear To us done and fancy bore the fabric here Next choosing from great Shakespeare's comic school The gossip crone, roast fryer and jiving fool These with a virgin fair and lover brave To our young authors care the enchantress gave But charged him air he blessed the brave and fair To lay the exalting villains boosom bear And by the torment of his conscious show That prosperous vice is but triumphant woe

4:09The pleasing task congenial to his soul Off from his own sad thoughts are author-stole Let's be his labors if with like success They sued their sorrows whom I now address Beneath this dome should some afflicted breast More enslighted talents or dessert oppressed False friendship hopeless love or faith portrayed Our author will esteem each toil overpaid If while his muse exerts her lively ravine Or tells imagined woes in plaintive strain Her flights and fancies make one smile appear On the pale cheek were trickled late at ear Or if her fabled sorrows still one grown Which else her hearers would have given their own Act one scene one A grove Enter father Philip and motley Never tell me I repeat it

5:09You are a fellow of a very scandalous gulso of life And I repeat it I'm a perfect image of the purest virtue Compared to whom for sobriety incontinence Kato was a drunkard and Lucretia little better than she should be Oh hard and in impudence Can you deny being a pilferer, a lawyer, a glutton? Can I? Heaven be thanked I've courage enough to deny anything Doesn't all the world cry out upon you Certainly my transcendent merit has procured me some enemies And in common with many other great men My virtue at present labors under something of a cloud But understand me right father Though I don't ascent to the sum total of your accusations Possibly I may acknowledge some of the items The best actions frequently appear culpable

6:11Merely because their motives are unexplained Therefore produce your charges Let me justify my conduct And I doubt not I shall retrieve my reputation from your hands As immaculate and pure as a new sheet of full scab To begin then with your pilfering Did you all did you not break open the pantry door And steal out the great goose pie Begging your pardon father that was no fault of mine Who's then Look cooks undoubtedly For if he hadn't locked the pantry door Toes a hundred to one I shouldn't have taken the trouble to break it open Nonsense nonsense I tell you you've been guilty of stealing Which is a monstrous crime And what did you steal? Had you taken anything else? I'm out of forgiven you But to lay irreverent hands upon the goose pie

7:15As I'm a Christian The identical goose pie which I intended for my own supper But this is not my only objection to your conduct No What principally offends me There's a dupe of hurt the minds of the maids And keep kissing and smuggling all the pretty girls you meet Oh, five Five I kiss and smuggle them St. Francis for bed Lord love you father Tis they who kiss and smuggle me I protest I do what I can to preserve my modesty And I wish that our sm worshiped Dunston had heard the lecture upon chastity Which I read last night to the dairy made in the dark He might have been quite edified But yet what does talking signify The eloquence of my lips is counteracted by the luster of my eyes And really the little devils are so tender and so troublesome

8:19That I'm half angry with nature for having made me so very bewitching Nonsense nonsense Why it was but yesterday that Sicily and Luciae went to fisticuffs quarreling which looked neatest my red leg or my yellow leg Then they are so fond and so coaxing They hang about one so lovingly And one says kind Mr. Motley and the other sweet Mr. Motley Ah father Philip father Philip how is a poor little bit of flesh and blood like me to resist such temptation Put yourself in my place Suppose that a sweet smiling rogue just 16 with rosy cheeks sparkling eyes pouting lips etc Oh five five five to hear such licentious discourse brings tears to my eyes I believe you father where I see the water is running over at your mouth

9:23However this shows you It shows me that you are a reprobate and that my advice is thrown away upon you In future I shall keep those councils to myself Which I offered you from motives of pure Christian charity Charity my good father should always begin at home Now instead of giving yourself so much trouble to mend me What if you thought a little of correcting yourself I I have nothing to correct No to be sure The odor of my sanctity perfumes the whole kingdom It has a powerful smell about it I own Not unlike carrion you may wind it a mile off Oh Malice Not exactly I could mention some little points Which might be altered in you still better than in myself

10:23Such as in temperance gluttony gluttony Oh a bomb above four Plain matter of fact Why will any man pretend to say that you came honestly by that enormous belly That tremendous tomb of fish flesh and foul I protest I'm grateful to heaven that among the unclean beasts who accompanied Noah There went not into the ark a pair of fat monks They must infallibly have created a famine and then the world would never have been repealed Next foreign continents you must allow yourself that you are unequaled I I You you May I ask what was your business in the beach grow of the other evening when I caught you with bucks of marjorie the millers pretty wife Was it quite necessary to lay your heads together so close Perfectly necessary

11:25I was whispering in her ear wholesome of voice Indeed Faith then she took your advice as kindly as it was given and exactly in the same way too You gave it with your lips and she took it with hers Well done father philip Sun sun you give your tongue too great a license Nay father be not angry fools you know are privileged persons I know they're very useless ones and in short master motley to be playing with you of all fools I think you are the worst and for fools of all kinds are an insuperable aversion Really Then you have one good quality at least and I cannot but admire such a total want of self-love A horn sounds But hawk Tis the dinner horn a way to table father

12:27Depend upon the servants will rather eat part of their dinner unblast then stay till your stomach comes like Jonas whale and swallows up the hole Well well foe I am going but first let me explain to you that my bulk proceeds No indulgence of voracious appetite no son no little sustenance do I take but seen Cuthbert's blessing is upon me and that little prosperous with me marvelously Verily the saint has given me rather too plentiful an increase and my legs Disguess able to support the weight of his bounties Exit Motley alone He looks like an overgrown turtle whistling upon its hind fins Yet at the bottom is a good fellow enough warm-hearted benevolent friendly and sincere But no more intended by nature to be a monk than I to be a maid of honor to the queen of Shiba

13:31going Enter Percy I Cannot be mistaken Inspire of his dress his features are too well known to me Hist Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert oh lord that's I who calls Have you forgotten me truly sir that would be no easy manner. I have never forgotten in my life what I never do Have ten years older me so much that you cannot Hey can it be Pardon my dear master pardon In truth you may well forgive my having forgotten your name For at first I didn't very well remember my own However to prevent further mistakes I must inform you that he who in your father's service was Gilbert the nave Is motley the fool in the service of Earl Asmond Of Earl Asmond this is fortunate

14:33Gilbert you may be of use to me and if the attachment which has a boy professed for me still exists It does with order unabated for I'm not so unjust as to attribute to you my expulsion from Enwick Castle In fact, I deserved it for I cannot deny but that at 20 I was as good for nothing a nave as ever existed Consequently old Earl Percy dismissed me from his service But I know that it was sorely against your inclination You were then scarce 14 and I had been your companion in play fellow from your childhood I remember well your grief at party with me and that you slipped into my hand the purse which contained the whole of your little treasure That act of kindness struck to my heart I swore at the moment to love you through life and if ever I forget my old Damn me My honest Gilbert and what made you assume this habit Ah my lord what could I do

15:35In spite of my navery and tricks I was constantly upon the point of starving and having once contracted the idle habit of eating I never could bring myself to leave it off After living five years by my wits want Grovy almost out of them I knew not what course to take When I heard that Earl Osmond's jester had fled the country I exerted my navery for the last time in stealing the fugitive's cast coat was accepted in his place by the Earl And now gain an honest livelihood by persuading my neighbors that I'm a greater fool than themselves And your changes for the better infinitely Indeed your fool is universally preferred to your nave and for this reason Your fool is cheated your nave cheats Now everybody had rather cheat than be cheated Some truth in that And now sir may I ask what brings you to Wales

16:35Oh a woman who might adore Yes, I guess that the business was about a petty coat and this woman is The orphan ward of a villager without friends without family without fortune Great points in her favour I must confess And which of these excellent qualities won your heart I hope I had better reasons for bestowing it on her In all you birds I loved her for a person beautiful without art And grisly without evictation For her heart tender without weakness and noble without pride We saw it once beloved in the reverence by her village companions They looked on her as a being of a superior order And I felt that she who gave such dignity to the cottage maid Must needs add new luster to the coronet of the purses From which I am to understand that you mean to marry this rustic Could I mean otherwise I should blush for myself

17:38Yet surely the business of her origin Can't and me be no objection And given her my hand I raise her to my station Not to base myself to hers Nor ever were gazing on the beauty of her rose Did I think it less fair because planted by a pizzer Bravo And what says your good grumbling father to this Alas, he has long slept in the grave Then he's quiet at last Well, God grant him that peace in heaven Which he suffered nobody to enjoy on earth But his death having left you master of your actions What obstacle now prevents your marriage You shall hear Fearful as my rank should influence this lovely girl's affections And induce her to bestow her hand on the noble While she refuses her heart to the man I assumed a pizzer's habit And presented myself this edway the lowborn in the poor In this character I gained her heart

18:40And resolved to hail as Countess of Northumberland The withdrawals of edway the lowborn in the poor I warrant the pretty soul wasn't displeased with the discovery That discovery is still unmade Judge her great must have been my disappointment when On entering her gardens cottage of this design He informed me that the unknown Who 16 years before it confided her to his care Had reclaimed her on that very morning And conveyed her no one you with her That was unlucky Was it not? Ah Could I declare myself one day sooner air this she would have been my wife True and being your wife if a stranger then had conveyed her no one knew with her You might have thought yourself mightily obliged to him However in spite of his precautions I have traced the stranger's course And find him to be canaryc A dependent upon El Osmond

19:42Surely it is not Lady Angela who They're the same Speak my good fellow Do you know her? Not by your description For here she's understood to be the daughter of Sir Malcolm Maurey My master's deceased friend And what is your present intention? It's the mounted of the Earl in Manage Oh That will never do For in the first place you'll not be able to get a sight of him I've now lived with him five long years Until Angela's arrival never witnessed a guest in the castle Oh, it is the most melancholy mansion And as to its master he's the very antidote to Murth He always walks with his arms folded His brows bent His eyes luring on you with a gloomy skull He never smiles and to laugh in his presence would be high to reason He looks at no one speaks to no one

20:42None dare approach him Except Kendrick at his four blacks All others are ordered to avoid him And whenever he quits his room Ding dong goes a great bell And away run the servants like so many scared rabbits Strange And what reasons can he have for? Oh Reasons in plenty You must know there's an ugly story Respecting the last owners of this castle Osmond's brother His wife and if in child Were murdered by Ben Gide as it was said Unluckily the only servant who escaped the slaughter Deposed that he recognized among the assassins A black still in the service of Earl Osmond The truth of this assertion was never known For the servant was found dead in his bed the next morning Good heavens Since that time no sound of joy has been heard in Conway Castle Osmond instantly became gloomy and ferocious He now never utters a sound except a sigh

21:45Has broken every tie of society And keeps his gates barred unceasingly against the stranger Yet Angela isn't admitted But no doubt affection for her father Why no I rather think that affection for her father's child How If I've any knowledge in love The Earl feels it for his fair ward But the lady will tell you more of this If I can procure for you an interview Very request which It is no easy matter I promise you But I'll do my best In the meantime wait for me in Yonder Fishing Hut Its owner's name is Edrick Tell him that I sent you and he will give you a retreat Fairwell then and remember that whatever reward Dear master to mention a reward insults me You have already shown me kindness And went his in my power to be of use to you To need the inducement of the second favour would prove me a scoundrel

22:47Undeserving of the first Exit How warm is this good fellow's attachment Yet our bearings complain that the great can have no friends If they have none let their own pride bear the blame Instead of looking with scorn on those whom a smile would attract And a favour bind forever How many firm friends might our nobles gain If they would but reflect that their vassals are men as they are And have heart so his feelings can be grateful as their own Exit Scene 2 The Castle Hall Saib and Hassan meeting No Hassan What success My search has been fruitless In vain have I paced the river's banks And pierced the groves deepest recesses Nor glann nor thicket have I paced unexplored Yet found no stranger to whom Kenrick's description could apply Saw you no one

23:47A troop of horsemen passed me as I left the wood Horsemen say you Then Kenrick may be right Her purse he has discovered Angela's abode And lurks near the castle in hopes of carrying her off His hopes then will be in vain Osmond's vigilance will not easily be eluded Sharpened by those powerful motives love and fear His love I know But should he lose Angela Won't have he to fear If Percy gains her everything Supported by such wealth and power Dangerous would be her claim to these domains should her birth be discovered Of this hour Lord is aware Nor did he sooner hear that Northumberland loved her Then he hasten to remove her from Alan's care At first I doubt his purpose was a foul one Her resemblance to her mother induced him to change it He is now resolved to make her his bride And restore to her those rights of which himself deprived her

24:47Thank you the lady perceives that our master loves her I know she does not Absorbed in her own passion for Percy on Osmond's she bestows no thought And while roving through these pompous halls and chambers Size for the Shavoy Hills and Alan's humble cottage But as she still believes Percy to be a low-born swan When Osmond lays his coroner at her feet Will she reject his rank and splendour If she loves well she will Saib I too have loved I have known how painful it was to leave her on whom my heart hung How incapable was all else to supply her loss I have exchanged want for plenty Fatigue for rest a wretched hut for a splendid palace But am I happier? Oh no still do I regret my native land And the partners of my poverty Then toil was sweet to me for I labored for Samba Then repose ever blessed my bed of leaves

25:50For there by my side lay Samba sleeping This from you Hassan The love ever find the place in you flinty bosom Did it? Oh Saib my heart once was gentle once was good But sorrows have broken in insults have made it hard I have been dragged from my native land from a wife who was everything to me to whom I was everything 20 years have elapsed since these Christians tore me away They trampled upon my heart mocked my despair And when in frantic terms I raved of Samba laughed and wondered how a knee grows so all could feel In that moment when the last point of Africa faded from my view When as I stood on the vessel's deck I felt that all I loved was to be lost forever In that bitter moment did I banish humanity from my breast I tore from my arm the bracelet of Samba's hair I gave to the sea the precious token

26:51And while the high waves swift bore it from me Vowed a loud endless hatred to mankind I have kept my oath I will keep it It's start Hassan you wrongs have indeed been great To remember them unmans me Farewell I must to Kendrick hold Look where he comes from Osman's chamber And seemingly in wrath His conferences with the Earl of Late have had no other end The period of his favor is arrived None of his favor merely Hassan How Me knew that His anxiety for independence his wish to withdraw himself from Wales He had more certain mysterious words and threats for some time past Have made our lord uneasy By him was at his morning commission silence He's here You shall know more now

27:51Enter Kendrick His promise ever evaded My request still heard with impatience And treated with neglect Osman I will bear your impreditude no longer Now Hassan found you the man described Nor any that resembled him Yet the I saw Percy I am convinced As I crossed him in the wood his eye met mine He started as head he seen a basilisk And fled with rapidity Be on your guard my friends Doubtless he will attempt to gain admission to the castle Can we be otherwise then watchful When we see how well the Earl rewards his followers Of that Kendrick you are an example Have you obtained that recompense or long promised Do you enjoy that independence which Sayyib the Earl's in gratitude cuts me to the heart Attached to him from his infancy I have long been his friend long fancied him mine

28:57The illusion is now over He sees that I can serve him no further Knows that I can harm him much Therefore he fears and fearing Hates me But I will submit no longer to this painful dependence Tomorrow for the last time Will thy summon him to perform his promise If he refuses I will bid him farewell forever And by my absence free him from a restrained equally irksome to myself and him Will you so can we be speedy then We will be too late Too late and wherefore You will soon receive the reward of your services Ha you know what that reward will be I guess but may not tell Is it a secret? Can you keep one faithfully

29:57As faithfully can I come Hassan Excient Kendrick alone What meant the sleeve those doubtful expressions Ha Should the Earl and tend me false Kendrick Kendrick How was thy nature changed? There was time when a fear was a stranger to my bosom When guiltness myself Hydra did not art and others Now Wherever I turn me danger appears to lurk And I suspect treachery and every breast Because my own heart hides it Exit Enter father Philip Followed by Alice Mansons You silly woman what you say is not possible I never said it was possible I only said it was true And that if I ever heard music

30:58I heard it last night Perhaps the fool was singing to the servants The fool indeed Oh five five How dare you call my ladies ghost a fool Your ladies ghost You silly old woman Yes father yes I repeated I heard the guitar lying upon the oratory table Played a very air Which the lady Avelina used to sing while rocking her little daughter's cradle She wore her did so sweetly And ever at the close it went Lullaby Lullaby Harsh dee my dear Thy father is coming And soon we'll be here Mansons Mansons why pray the Alice Do you think that your ladies ghost would get up at night Only to sing lullaby for your amusement Besides how should a spirit switch is nothing but air

32:00Play upon an instrument of material What an cut cut How can I tell Why I know very well that man I'm made But if you desired me to make a man I've o' and protest I shouldn't know how to set about it I can only say that last night I heard the ghost of my murdered lady Playing upon the spirit of a cracked guitar Alice Alice These bears are ridiculous The idea of ghosts is a vulgar prejudice And they who are timid and absurd enough to encourage it Prove themselves the most contemptible Oh Lord bless us What hey oh dear Look look A figure in white It comes from the haunted room Father Philip dropping on his knees Worse it's unpatric

33:00Who's got me Bades Worse me prayer book It comes it comes No no Like a day It's only Lady Angela Father Philip rising Lackaday I'm glad of it with all my heart Truly so am I But what say you now Father to the fear of specters In good faith Alice That my theory was better than my practice However the next time you are afraid of a ghost Remember and make use of the receipt which I shall now give you Instead of calling for a priest to lay the spirits of other people in the Red Sea Call for a bottle of red wine to raise your own Prebatum est Exit Alice alone Wine indeed I believe he thinks I like drinking as well as himself

34:03No no Let the old toping fry a take his bottle of wine I shall confine myself to plain cherry brandy Inter Angela I am wary of wandering from brim to brim In vain do I change the scene Discontent is everywhere There was a time when music had delight to my ear And nature could charm my eye When as a dawn unveiled the landscape Each object had disclosed to me Licked pleasant and fair And while the lost sunbeams Yet lingued on the western sky I could pour forth a prayer of gratitude And thank my good angels for a day Unclouded by sorrow Now all is gone All lost all faded Lady Perhaps at this moment he thinks upon me Perhaps he wanders in those mountains Where we so oft have strayed Reclides in that bank Where we so oft have sat All this sadly to the stalling Which he taught to repeat my name Perhaps then he sighs

35:04And murmurs to himself The flowers The rivulets The birds Every object reminds me of my well beloved But what shall remind her of Edwee Oh That will my heart Edwee I need no other remembranceer Lady Lady Angela She minds me no more than opposed Oh Are you there, Cadalus? What would you with me? Only ask how your lady ship rested Oh Very ill Like a day And yet you sleep in the best bed True, Cadalus But my heart's anguish Drrewed the horns upon my couch of down Mary, I'm not surprised that you rested ill in the cedar room Those noises so near you What noises? I heard none How When the clock struck one Hurt you no music Music None And never have heard any while in the cedar room

36:07Not that I Stay Now remember That's while I start to learn in my chamber this morning Well, lady Well We thought I heard someone singing It seemed as if the words ran thus Lullaby Lullaby Hush the my dear The very words It was the ghost lady It was the ghost The ghost Alice I protest I thought it had been you Me lady Lord When did you hear this singing? Not five minutes ago While you were talking with Father Philip The Lord be thanked Then it was not the ghost It was I lady It was I And have you heard no other singing since you came to the castle None But why that question? Because lady But perhaps you may be frightened No, no Proceed I intrigued you

37:08Why then They do say that the chamber in which you sleep Is haunted You may have observed two folding doors Which are ever kept locked They lead to the oratory In which the lady Avelina Past most of her time While my lord was engaged in the Scottish Wars She would sit there good soul Hour after hour Playing on the loot And singing is so sweet So sad That many a time and oft have I wept to hear her Oh when I kissed her hand at the castle gate Little did I suspect that her fate would have been so wretched And what was her fate? A sad one lady In patient to embrace her lord After a year's absence The counter set out to meet him on his return from Scotland Accompanied by a few domestics and her infant daughter Then scarce a 12 month old But as she returned with her husband Robber's surprised the party Scares a mile from the castle

38:10And since that time No news has been received of the Earl Of the counters, the servants, or the child True breathful Why not their corpse is found Never The only domestic who escaped Pointed out the scene of action And as it proved to be under river's banks Doubtless the assassins Plunched bodies into the stream Strange And at all osmen then become owner of this castle Alice, was he ever suspected of Speak lower lady It was said so I own But for my own part I never believed it To my certain knowledge Osmond loved the lady Avelina too well to hurt her And when he heard of her death He wept and sobbed as if his heart were breaking Nate is certain that he proposed to her before marriage And would have made her his wife Only that she liked his brother better Well she might indeed for Earl Reginald

39:11Was a sweet agenda man by half And in the oratory you say Good Alice you have the key of it Let me see that oratory tonight Tonight lady Heaven preserve me I wouldn't enter it after dark for the world But before dark Alice Before dark Why that indeed Well We'll see lady But I hope you're not alarmed by what I mentioned of the cedar room Now truly Alice From good spirits I have nothing to fear And heaven and my innocence were protecting me against bad My very sentiments I protest Her but heaven forgive me While I stand gossiping here I warrant all goes wrong in the kitchen You pardon lady I must away I must away Exit Angela Musing Osmond was his brother's heir His strange demeanor

40:12Yes in that gloomy brow is written of volume of villainy Heavenly powers An assassin then is master of my fate An assassin too who I did not bend my thoughts that way Oh When I had never entered these castle walls Had ever exchanged for fearful pomp The security of my pleasures The tranquility of my soul Return, return sweet peace And hour my breath spread thy bright wings Distill thy barmy breast And teach my steps thy realms among to rove Wealth and the world resigned Not mine but love Ah Seize thy suit fond girl Thy prayer is vain For thus did love his tyrant law ordain Peace still must fly that heart Where I still reign Exit End of the first act Act 2 of the castle specter by Matthew Lewis

41:16This is a Librivox recording All Librivox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit Librivox.org Act 2 scene 1 The armory Suits of armor are arranged on both sides upon pedestals With the names of their possessors written under each Enter Motley peeping in The coast is clear Hist, hissed You may enter Enter Percy Lloyd do not hear Quick my good fellow conduct me to Angela Softly, softly A little caution is needful And I promise you just now I'm not upon roses You remember the servant who hinted that Earl Osmond had a hand at his brother's murder Should I be suspected of admitting you to the castle His fate might to be mine And whatever you may think of it My lord

42:17I shouldn't be at all pleased at waking up tomorrow to find myself dead in my bed It's such a rare fierce Why not we met once to Angela How are we not more exposed in this open hole Be contented and leave all to me I will contrive matters so that Osmond shall have you before his eyes And be no jot the wiser Here Taking down a suit of armor Pull it on this coat of mail You must make up your mind to play a statue for an hour or two How Nay, it is absolutely necessary Quick, quick, air the servants quit the hall where they are now at dinner Here's the helmet The gauntlet The shield So now take this truncheon in your hand And there we have you armed capopy And now be good enough to explain what purpose is masquerade is to answer willingly You are to know that since the late Earl's death the castle is thought to be haunted

43:21The servants are fully persuaded that his ghost wanders every night through the long galleries And parades the old towers and dreary halls which abound in this melancholy mansion He is supposed to be dressed in complete armor And that which you were at present was formally his Now hear my plan The Earl prepares to hold a conference with Lady Angela Even now I heard her summoned to attend him in the armory Placed upon this pedestal You may listen to their discourse unobserved And thus form a proper judgment both of your mistress And her guardian As soon as it grows dark I will conduct you to Angela's apartments The obscurity will then shelter you from discovery And even should you be observed you will pass for Earl Reginal's Spectre I do not dislike your plan But tell me Gilbert do you believe this tale of the apparition Oh heaven forbid not a word of it Had I minded all the strange things related to this castle

44:24I should have died of fright in the first half hour Why they say that Earl Hewitt rides every night around the castle on a white horse That the ghost of Lady Bertha haunts the west pinnacle of the chapel tower And that Lord Hilderbrand who was condemned for treason some sixty years ago Maybe seen in the great hall regularly at midnight playing at football with his own head Above all they say that the spirit of the late Countess sits nightly in her oratory and sings her baby to sleep However if it to be so A bell sounds thrice loud and solemn Hark choose the Earl quick to your post Percy ascends the pedestal Farewell I must get out of his way But as soon as he quits this chamber I'll rejoin you Dozo and farewell exit motley The folding doors are thrown open Saib Hassan, Muley and Alarak enter Proceeding or a lasband who walks with his arms folded and his eyes bent upon the ground

45:32Saib advances a sofa into which after making a few turns through the room Osman throws himself He motions to his attendance and they withdraw He appears lost and thought Then suddenly rises and again traverses the room with disordered steps I will not sacrifice my happiness to hers For sixteen long years have I thirsted And now when the cup of joy again stands full before me Shall I dash it from my lip No Angela you ask of me too much Since the moment when I pierced her heart Deprived of whom life became odious Since my soul was stained with his blood who loved me

46:35With hers whom I loved No form has been grateful to my eye No voice spoken pleasure to my soul save Angela's save only Angela's Doating upon one who death has long clasped in his arms Tortured by desires which I had never hoped to satisfy Many a mournful year is my heart no no thromb but of Anguish no guest but remorse at committing a fruitless crime Hope that's stranger Once more revisits my bosom the fiend who led me through passions mazes to the heights of guilt Owns that a crime so great well merits a reward He bids the monuments jaws on close Evolina revives in her daughter

47:36And soon shall the fires which consume me Be quenched in Angela's arms What though her heart be purses What though she prefers a basilis kiss to mine Because my short live joy May cause her Eternal sorrow shall I reject those pleasures sought so long desired so earnestly That will I not by heaven Mine she is and mine she shall be The originals bleeding ghosts flip before me and thunder in my ear hold hold Peace stormy heart She comes Enter Angela Come hither Angela Warforsor sad

48:38That downcast I that listless air Neither suit your age or fortunes Raised from obscurity to rank and splendor Can this change call no smile upon your cheek Where air you turn Respect and adoration wait you A thousand servants move obedient to your nod The treasures of India are lavish to adorn your person Yet still do I see you forgetting what you are Look back with regret to what you were Oh my good lord It's deemed me not ungrateful I knowledge your bounties but they have not made me happy I still linger in thought near those scenes where I pass the blessed period of infancy I still thirst for those simple pleasures which habit has made to me most dear The birds with my own hands bread and the flowers which my own hands planted The bags in which I rested went fatigued

49:38The wild tangled wood which supplied me with strawberries And the village chart where I prayed to be virtuous While I yet knew advice and virtue but the name All have acquired rights to my memory and my love What these costly dresses These scenes of popping greatness Dazzle my eyes but leave my heart unsatisfied What I would meet with is affection not respect I had rather be obliged in the bade And all these glittering gems are far less dear to me Than one flower of a wreath which edwee's hands are woven Confusion While I saw you Chevy at hills I was happy oh how happy While I listened to your artless accents friends in my childhood How swelled my phone tart with gratitude and pleasure At morn when I left my bed light where my spirits And gay as the zephyres of summer And when at night my head again pressed my pillow I whispered to myself Happy has been today and some more will be as happy

50:41Then sweet was my sleep and my dreams were of those who my loved dearest Romantic enthusiast These thoughts did well for the village made But disgrace the daughter of Sir Malcolm Mowbury Let them be changed for others better suited to your birth To the fortune which awaits you Hear me Angela In English Baron loves you A nobleman then whom are island both few more potent Tis to him that your hand is destined Tis on him that your heart must be bestowed I cannot dispose of that which has long been in others My heart is edwee's Edwee's A passants For the obscurity of his birth Charts must be blamed The memory of his virtues belongs holy to himself By heaven You seem to think that parvades of virtue Sir I think to some misfortune not a crime And when in spite of nature's injustice

51:43And the frowns of a prejudice and a liberal world I feel some lobe on but a lostry of spirit Prove its off superior To the station which it fills I hail it with pleasure With admiration with respect Such a spirit I've found in edwee And finding Loved My blood boils with passion You say that by these sentiments I disgrace my rank I say that to break my given word would disgrace it more Edwee has my plighted faith He received it on the last evening which I passed in Northumberland As we sat on a low bench before old Alan's cottage It was a heavenly night sweet and tranquil as the loves of angels A gentle breeze whispered among the honey-sockles Which bloomed above us And the full moon tinted with her sliver Like the divine towers of Onwick It is then that for the first time I gave him my hand And I swore that I never would give it but to him It was then that for the first time he pressed his lips to mine

52:44And I swore that my lips should never be pressed by another Girl girl You tried me to distraction You allowed me my lord permit me to retire Going Osmond detained serve violently by the arm Stay Angela I love you Angela starting My lord Love you to madness My pizm is a gulf of devouring flames I must quench them in your arms or perish Nay strive not to escape Remain and hear me I offer you my hand If you accept it Mistress of these fair and rich domains Your day shall glide away in happiness and honor But if you refuse and scorn my offer Force shall this instant

53:45Force oh no you cannot be so base Reflect on your situation Angela You're in my power Remember it and be wise If you have a generous mind that will be my surest safeguard Be at my plea Osmond When thus I sue to you for mercy for protection Look on me with petty Osmond To the daughter of the man you loved To his a creature Friendless wretched and for lawn who kneels before you Who flies to you for refuge True I am in your power Then save me Respect me treat me not cruelly For I am in your power I will hear no more Will you accept my offer Osmond I can't do you answer my question Mercy mercy Would you be mine Speak Speak Angela after a moment's pause Rises and pronounces with firmness

54:48Never to help me heaven Osmond seizing her Your fate then is decided Angela shrieks Percy in a hollow voice Hope Osmond starts but still grasps Angela's arm Huh What was that? Angela struggling to escape Huck Huck How'd you know to voice? Osmond gazing upon Percy It came from hence From Reginald Was it not a delusion Did indeed his spirit Relapsing into his former passion Well be it so Though his ghost should rush between us Thus what I clasp her Hore What sight is this

55:48At the moment that he again sees As Angela Percy extends his truncion With a menacing gesture And descends from the pedestal Osmond releases Angela Who immediately rushes from the chamber While Percy advances a few steps And remains gazing on the url stead fastly I know that shield That helmet Speak to me dreadful vision Tax me with my crimes Tell me That you come Stay Speak Following Percy Who When he reaches the door through which Angela escaped Turns and signs to him with his hand Osmond starts back and terror He forbids my following He leaves me The door closes In a sudden burst of passion And drawing his sword

56:49Hell and fiends I'll follow him The lightning blasts me He rushes distractedly from the chamber Seen to the castle hall Enter Alice He is rudeness He is in breeding On my conscience this house grows worse and worse every day Enter Motley What can he have done with himself Perhaps weary of waiting for me in the armory He has found his way alone to Angela How now, Dame Alice, what has happened to you? You look angry By my trothful I have little reason to look pleased To be frightened out of my wits by night And something pumped about by day Is not likely to put one in the best humor Poor soul And who has been pumping and pumping you? Who has? You should rather ask who has not Why only here

57:50As I was just now going along the narrow passage Which leads to the armory Singing to myself and singing of nothing I am met Lady Angela Flying away as if for dear life So I dropped her a courtesy But might as well have spared my pains Without minding me any more than if I had been a dog or a cat She pushed me on one side And before I could recover my balance Somebody else who came bouncing by me Gave me the other thumb And there a lace brawling upon the floor However I tumbled with all possible decency And took great care that my peticles should cover my legs Somebody else, what somebody else? I know not, but he seemed to be an armor An armor? Pray Alice, looked he like a ghost What he looked like I cannot say But I am sure he didn't feel like one However, you've not heard the worst While I was sprawling upon the ground My lord comes tearing along the passage

58:51The first thing he did was to stumble against me Away when his heels over he came And in the twinkling of an eye There lay his lordship As soon as he got up again Mercy how he stormed He snatched me up Called me an ugly old witch Shooked a breath out of my body Then clacked me on the ground again And bounced away after the other two My mind misgives me But what can this mean Alice? And in meaning I neither know or care about But this I know I'll stay no longer in a house Where I'm treated so disrespectfully My lady says I Out of my way Says she and pushes me on one side My lord says I You be damned Says he and pushes me on the other High protest I never was so ill used Even when I was a young woman Exit This account alarms me

59:51Should Percy be discovered The very thought gives me a creek in my neck At any rate I had better inquire whether Going Enter Father Philip hastily Father Philip stopping him Get out of the house What's your way? Why? What's the meaning? Don't stand Prating there but do as I bid you But first tell me I can only tell you to get out of the house Kinrik has discovered all Percy You are known to have introduced them The Afri conserves in search of you If you are found you will be hung out of hand Fly then to Eddorick's cottage Hide yourself there Huck, someone comes Away, away, air it's too late Pushing him out But Earl Percy But Angela Leave him to me Usually here for me soon Only take care of yourself And fly with all diligence Away

1:00:52Exit Motley Father Philip alone So so he's off And now I've time to take breath I've not moved so nimbly for the last 20 years And in truth I'm at present but ill calculated For velocity of motion However my exertions have not been thrown away I've saved this poor name from Osman's vengeance And should my plan for the ladies release succeed Poor little soul To see how she took on when Percy was torn from her Well, well, she shall be rescued from her tyrant The movable panels The subterraneous passages The secret springs well known to me Oh, I cannot fail of success But in order to secure it I'll finally arrange my ideas in the buttery Whenever I've any great design in hand I always ask advice of a flag and a veil And mature my plan over a cold venison pastry

1:01:56Oh, what an excellent genius must that man have had Who first invented eating and drinking Exit Seen three, a spacious chamber On one side is a couch on the other a table Which is placed under an arched and lofty window Inter-Osmaned, followed by Saïb, Hassan, Mulee and Alorick Who conduct Percy disarmed This sir is your prison But doubtless Your confinement will not continue long The moment which gives me Angela's hand Shall we store you to liberty And until that moment arrives Farewell Stay, sir, and hear me By what authority do you presume you to call me captive Have you forgotten that you speak to Northumberland's Earl? Well, may I forget him Who could so far forget himself

1:02:58Was it worthy Of Northumberland's Earl to steal the skies into my castle And plot with my servant To rob me of my most precious treasure Mine was at treasure You deprived me of it basically And I was justified in striving to regain my own Earl, nothing can justify unworthy means If you were wronged Why sought you not your right with your sword's point I then should have esteemed you a noble foe And as such would have treated you But you have stooped to Paltry Artifice and attacked me Like some midnight ruffian privately and in disguise By this am I authorized to forget your station And make your penance as degrading As your offense was base If such are indeed your sentiments prove them now

1:03:58Restore my sword and she's your own and be Angela the conqueror's reward No, Earl Percy I'm not so rash a game-sters to suffer that cast to be recalled By which the stake is mine already Angela is in my power The only man who could rest her from my arms Has woefully made himself my captive Such he is and such he shall remain Insulting tyrant you had a cowardice and a fees my challenge priest efficiently Be calm, Earl Percy You forget yourself That I'm no coward My sword is proved in the fields of Scotland My sword shall again prove it If when you are restored to liberty You still question the courage of my heart Angela once mine Repeat your defiance Nor doubt my answering

1:04:59Angela vine That she shall never be There are angels above who favor virtue And the outer of Retribution must one day arrive Throws himself upon the couch But long air the arrival of that hour Shall Angela bend my bride And now farewell Lord Percy Mule and Saib My lord To your charge I commit the Earl Quit not his apartment Nor suffer him for one moment from your sight My lord we shall obey you Osmond decide If she refuse me still The death of this Her favorite his death Oh through what bloody past do I wander in pursuit of happiness Yes, I am guilty Heaven how guilty Yeah lies the fault with me

1:06:01Did my own pleasure plant in my bosom These tempestuous passions No They were given me at my birth There were sucked in with my existence Nature formed me the slave of wild desires And fate as she frowned upon my cradle exclaimed I doom this babe To be a villain and a wretch Exit followed by Hassan and Alaric Who lock the door after him Look Mule how bitterly frowns Now he starts from the sofa Faith he's in a monstrous fury That may well be When you mean to take in other people It certainly is provoking to be taken in yourself Percy after walking a few turns with a disordered air Suddenly stops I used gond' Angela

1:07:02Gond' perhaps tyranny the out-to-raised completion of my presence alone prevented Helpless and unprotected with no friend but innocence no advocate saved tears How will she now to pill his violence Now he's in a deep study Mary if he studies himself out of this tower He's a cleverer fellow than I take him for But I know Osmos captive oh might yet be well Some of him were vassals Who by this time has been near at hand Forrest in the castle and tearing Angela from the arms of a tyrant Alas my captivity has rounded his plan impracticable It turned more carsies upon Gilbert who persuaded me to adopt this artifact Carses on my own rash folly which has thrown me their defenses in the power of my foe That's right another stamp or two and the tower comes rattling about our ears And are there then no hopes of liberty

1:08:04He fixes his eyes on us Might not least fill us Oh I can but try Now stand my friend that will master key to human hearts In me that potent devil gold Hear me my worthy friends come nearer His worthy friends How we such merely Yes truly we are for friends and need our friends indeed Mary if he were not in need he would call us his mortal foes My good fellows you are charged with a disagreeable office And to obey a tyrant's mandates cannot be pleasant to you There is something in your looks which is prejudiced me too much in your favor to believe it possible Nay there certainly is something in our appearance highly pre-possessing And I knew that you must admire the delicacy of our complexions The tings you have your skin my good fellow he's of a little consequence

1:09:04Many of where the heart bates within the dusk hyposome And I'm convinced such an heart inhabits yours For your looks tell me that you feel for and are anxious to relieve my sufferings See you this purse my friends It's too far off and I'm short-sighted if you'll put it a little nearer Restore me to liberty and not this purse alone but ten times its value shall be yours To liberty that purse Muley Syib By all my hopes they hesitate You will know that my wealth and power are equal not to say superior to El Osman's Release me from my dungeon and share that power in wealth Only events of today depends my life to you to happiness Nay perhaps my life itself Judge then if you assist me how great will be the service rendered me And believe that your reward shall equal my obligation

1:10:06I know not what to answer In truth my lord your offers are so generous and that purse is so tempting Syib would say you Winking to him The old speaks so well and he promises so largely that I own I'm strangely tempted Look you Syib will you stand by me Syib after a moment's thought I will There's my hand then my lord we are your servants This is beyond my hopes A thousand thanks my willy fellows be assured that the performance of my promise is shall soon follow the execution of yours Of that we make no doubt You agree then to release me It is impossible to do otherwise for I feel that pity generosity in every moral feeling Command me to trouble your lordship for that purse There it is and now unlock the door

1:11:06Muley Chaking the purse Here it is and now I'm obliged to you As for your promises my lord pray don't trouble yourself to remember them as I shant trouble myself to remember mine Percy starting Ha what mean you Syib firmly Well that we are faithful I wonder you didn't read that too in our amiable looks What You not keep your word In good truth no We mean to keep nothing except the purse Perfidious villains You mistake us sir we cannot be villains for I you know Am your lordship's worthy friend And I your lordship's unworthy pensioner Confucian To be made the gist of such rascals Oh Percy we are none but we should have been could you go to bribe us to betray our master

1:12:11We have but on our duty you have but came to just reward For they who seek to deceive others should ever be deceived themselves Silence fill Leave me to my thoughts Throwing himself passionately upon the couch Oh with all our hearts we ask no better Muley we share that purse Undoubtedly sit down and examine its contents They seat themselves on the floor in front of the stage How unfortunate that the only merit of these villains should be fidelity Oh no hope now is left Angela is lost and with her my happiness Of course of voices singing without Sing make it all oh make it Hark what's that I'll see

1:13:13Mouting upon the table Ah this window is so high Here here take this chair Sae places the chair upon the table And thus lifts himself to a level with the window Which he opens Sleep you are wake you lady bright She may give no hope Make her need Now is the finest time for flight She may give no hope Make her need No from your tar and father's power Beneath the window of your tower About now ways to set you free Sing make it all oh make it Sing make it all oh make it all

1:14:15Percy who has half raised himself from the couch during the letter part of the song and listened attentively Surely I know that voice Now what's the matter A boat lies at the foot of the tower and a fisherman sing while they draw their nets I cannot be mistaken it was Gilbert Hark they begin again The deep the stream the high the wall Sing make it all oh make it all The danger trust me love is small Sing make it all oh make it all To spring below the never-dread My arms to patch you shall be spread And far from hand you soon shall be

1:15:16Sing make it all oh make it all oh make it all oh make it all I understand him he pits me Yet the danger what course shall I pursue Pretty come down Sahib I long to divide the purse So One more stand sir and I'm with you now silence Oh Sing make it all oh make it all oh make it all oh make it all oh I Unheard she fell then swift gets way the boat pursued without delay while I'm not faced on

1:16:17Adgress me Say Megan oh oh Megan Sing make it all oh make it all oh Megan Will you never quit that window Sahib shutting it into sending Here I am and now for the purse They resume their seats upon the ground Sahib opens the purse and begins to reckon the gold Yes, I must brave the danger I will faint asleep and when my jails are off the guard Then aid me blessed providence Extending himself upon the couch Halt mule What if instead of sharing the purse with throw for its contents here are dice With all my heart and look to pass our time better here's a bottle of the best sack in the Earl's cellar Good good

1:17:19And now be this angel the stake But first what is our prisoner doing? Oh, he sleeps mind him not come come throw Here goes Now to you Nine two double stake Agreed and to throw his mind Hark what noise During this dialogue Percy has approached the table in silence At the moment that he prepares to mount it Sahib looks round and Percy hastily throws himself back upon the couch Oh nothing nothing We thought I heard the Earl Mir fancy you see he is sleeping soundly come come throw There then 11 That's bad Huzzah Sixes Play on your fortune come double o'quits Be it so and I throw

1:18:21Sounds only five Ha ha then I think this must be mine aces by heavens Ha ha your health friend Percy who has again reached the table mounted the chair and opening the window now stands at it and signs to the men below They see me an extend a cloth beneath the window She's a beautiful height Do you mean to empty the bottle come come give it me Take it blunder head Sahib drinks They encouraged me to venture now then or never Angels of bliss protect me He throws himself from the window Mulean Sahib starting at the noise Hello Sahib dashes down the bottle and climbs to the window hastily While Muley remains below in an attitude of surprise

1:19:24Escaped escaped Percy motley without Huzzah Huzzah Huzzah End of the second act Act three of the castle specter by Matthew Lewis This is a Librevox recording all Librevox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit Librevox.org Act three seen one A view of the river Conway with a fisherman's hut Sunset Enter Allen and Edrick Still they come not Dear dear still they come not Ah These tumult are too much for my old body to bear

1:20:25Then you should have kept your old body at home To the fine thing truly for a man of your age to be galloping about the country after a girl Who by your own account is neither your chick nor child Ah She was more to me She was my all Edrick my all How could I bear my home when it no longer was the home of Angela How could I rest in my cottage at night when her sweet lips had not kissed me and murmured Father sleep well She is so good so gentle I was sick once sick almost to death Angela was then my nurse and comforter She watched me when I slept and sheared me when I woke She rejoiced when I grew better and when I grew worse no medicine gave me ease like the tears of pity which fell on my burning cheeks from the eyes of my darling

1:21:29Tears of pity indeed a little rhubarb would have done you more good by half But our people stay a long time Perhaps Molly has been discovered and seized if so he will lose his life The Earl his freedom Angela her lover and what's worst of all I shall lose my boat I wish I hadn't lent it for I doubt that Molly's scheme has failed I hope not oh I hope not should Percy remain a captive Angela will be left unprotected in your wicked lord's power Oh that will break my poor old wife's heart for certain And if it should break it a mighty misfortune truly Zowns master Allen any wife is the best a bad thing A poor one makes matters get worse but when she's old lord is the very devil Hark Hark Do you hear this sound of wars

1:22:30They are our friends oh heaven be thank the earliest with them A boat appears with Percy, Motley and soldiers disguised as fishermen They land Percy springing on shore Ha once more then I breathe the air of liberty Where are they Gilbert what words can suffice to thank you None therefore do not waste your breath in the attempt You are safe thanks to Saint Peter and the blanket And your lady's deliverance now demands all your thoughts Ha who is that with Eddrick Alan by all my hoops welcome welcome good old man say came my vassals with you 300 chosen men are within the sound of your bugle They scarce gave me time to signify your orders here they set in their settles And as I would needs come with them heaven forgive them for it they put me on a hard trotting horse

1:23:38Mary he shook me really he has almost broken my old bones But that matters little my heart would have been broken had I stayed behind But now my lord tell me evangeler is she well Did you speak to her and speak she sometimes with me She's well my old friend and I have spoken to her Though but for a moment Scarce had a time to confess to her my rank with canaryk Who suspicious I had penetrated my disguise forced me for my presence But they converted good along Should other means fail I will this very night attack the castle And compel osman to resign his prey Heaven grents that you may succeed Let me but once the angel you'll bride Let me but once here is say the sweet words Alan I am happy Then I and my old wife will seek our graves lay us down and die with pleasure

1:24:40Die with pleasure you silly old man you shall do nothing so ridiculous You shall live a great many years and instead of lying down in your grave We'll tuck you up warm with your old wife in the best down bed of enwick castle But now let us talk of our affairs which if I mistake not are in the high road to success How has any intelligence reached you of your ally the friar You have guessed it As it passed beneath his window the pious porpoise can thrive to drop this letter into the boat Its contents must need to be of consequence where I assure you it comes from one of the greatest men in England Pray examine it my lord I never can read when the winds easterly I believe Gilbert where it normally you would be no joke the wiser I remember that many of us I'm sticked at our perceptor break up on your back in vain And before you had learned to spell your schooling at cost my father forest

1:25:41Motley while Percy reads Nay if learning could have been beaten into me by this time I should be a prodigious scholar To do him justice father Benjamin had a most instructive jerk with his arm And frequently used arguments so forcibly when pointing out my faults That many a time and oft as he brought tears into my eyes Then I generally felt so penitent and so low that I was obliged to steal his brandy bottle in order to recover my spirits Well sir what says the letter Listen I have recognized you in spite of your disguise and sees the opportunity to advise you are accepting yourself So let obtain Earl Perris' liberty He had not Angela I have shared an easy means for procuring her escape and before the clock strikes too It may expect me with her at the fisherman's hut Farewell and rely upon Father Philip Now Gilbert what say you may the monks fidelity be trusted

1:26:46His fidelity may undoubtedly But whether his success will equal his good intentions is a point which time alone can decide Should it not then with my faithful vassals will I storm the castle tomorrow What storm the castle oh no no My darling never saw a bird die but she wept then how will she bear to look on when men perish Be assured oh man that nothing seems invincible necessitation doos me to bathe my hands in the blood of my fellow creatures And but where are my followers Fearing let's take number should excite suspicion. I left them concealed in yonder wood guide me to them Edrick for this night. I must request a shelter of your hut willingly my lord but my cottage is so humble your treatment so wretched Sounds my good fellow the hats were good will decides to me more welcome than a palace And no food can be so sweet as that which is seasoned with smiles

1:27:49You give me your best a monarch could give no more and it happens not often that men ever give so much Now farewell for an hour Alain laid on Excient Percy Alan etc Monent Motley and Edrick And in the meantime friend Edrick I'll lend you a hand in preparing supper Huh truly the task won't give you much trouble for times have gone hard with me of late Our present lord sees no company gives no entertainments and lus I sell no fish Things went better while our original lived What you remember him Never shall I forget him or his sweet lady Why I barely believe they possessed all the cardinal virtues so pious so generous So mild so kind to the poor and so fond of fish fond of fish

1:28:49One of the cardinal virtues of which I never heard before But these thoughts make me sad Come master Motley your lord's supper still swims in the river If you'll help to catch it why do so and thank you heartily can you fish Can I who in this world cannot I'll assure you friend Edrick there is no profession more universal than yours We all spread our nets to catch something or rather And alas when obtained It seldom proves worth the trouble of taking The coquette fishes for hearts which are worthless The courtier for titles which are absurd And the poet for compliments which are empty Oh Happy are they in this world of disappointments who throw out no nets save fishing ones Excient Seen to the castle hall Enter Kenrick Yonder he stalks and seems buried in himself

1:29:51Now then to attack him while my late service is still fresh upon his memory Should he reject my petition positively He shall have good cause to repent his ingratitude Percy is in the neighborhood and that secret known only to myself will surely But silence look where he comes Inter-Osmond It shall not be Away with these four boating tears which weighed down my heart Does not all smile upon my fortunes My rival where's my chains He cannot rest her for me and with tomorrows done Angela shall be mine Found them high my heart Pleasure sweet guests so long a stranger Oh to my bosom welcomes once more I will forget the past I will enjoy the present and make those raptures again mine

1:30:56Which No no no Conscience that serpent Wines her folds around the cup of my bliss Air my lips can reach it her venom is mingled with a drop How profound the gloom which obscures his brow How fixed how hopeless glares his dark eyeball Oh dreadful is the villain's look when he ponders on committed crimes Evening approaches fast Drawing near and opening the window Already the air breeze cooler And the beams of the setting sun sparkle on the waters of Conway How fair how tranquil all without How dark how comfortless all within Hark The sound of music The peasants are returning from labor

1:31:57They move with gay and careless steps Carling as they go some rustic diddy We'll pass the night in the rest For they have passed the day in innocence Chorus without Plees the toils of day to leave Oh We haste with footsteps light Oh How gay the cutters Eve Oh how come The cutters Night Asmond closing the window with violence Curse is upon them I will look I will listen no more I sicken at the sight of happiness which I never more must enjoy I hate the possessors of hearts untainted

1:33:01Hate for I envy Oh fly from my eyes bright day Speed thy pace darkness thou art my love Haste to unfold thy sabile mantle Enrobed the world in the color of my soul Now then to accost him yet I tremble Anguish Endless hopeless anguish Day or night no moment of rest When I sleep dreams of strange horror Still fright me for my couch When I wake I find in every object Cause for distress Read the dread charge in every eye Thou art a murderer And tremble less the agents of my guilt should work its punishment See where he walks the chief object of my fears He shall not be so long

1:34:03His anxiety will leave me His later mysterious threats No, no, I will not live in fear Soft he advances So melancholy on my lord I can't recall and must be so tall angel is mine Know that even now she extorted from me a promise That till tomorrow I would leave her unmolested But till tomorrow But till tomorrow Oh, in that little space a lover's eye views myriads of dangers Yet think not good, Kendrick That your late services are undervalued by me Or that I have forgotten those for which I have been long your dead are When bewildered by hatred of Reginald In grief for Evelina's loss My dagger was placed on the throat of their infant Your hand arrested the blow

1:35:04Judge then how grateful I must feel when I behold an Angela Her mother's living counterpart Beholder such as when Shielding with her body her fallen husband Evelina received that dagger in her breast Which I aimed at the heart of Reginald Were the Kendrick how can I repay your services These you make easily But what her lousy mind what can repay me for the sacrifice of my innocence I was a virtuous till you bade me be guilty My hands were pure to you taught me to stain them with blood You painted in strong colors the shame of servitude You promised freedom riches and appendence You vanquished the resistance of my better angel And never since have I known one moment of rest Good Kendrick All here reminds me of my guilt

1:36:07Every object recalls to me Reginald and his murdered lady Let me then claim the independent so long promised In seek for peace and some other climate Since memory forbids me to taste it in this Kendrick air named your wish was granted In a far distant country a retreat is already prepared for you There may you hush those climbers of conscience Which must reach me I fear even in the arms of Angela Yet do not leave me till she's my bride Stay yet a week in Conway Castle And then they'll cost me many a pain Kendrick You shall bid a long adieu Are you contented? Kendrick affected My lord gratitude Amazement and I doubted I suspected Oh my good lord

1:37:07How have I wronged your kindness No more I must not hear you aside Shame shame That ever my soul should stoop to dissembling with my slave Kendrick farewell Till Angela's mind keep a strict eye on Percy And then Saeib enters and advances with apprehension How now? Why this confusion? Why do you tremble speak? My lord the prisoner The prisoner go on go on Saeib kneeling Pardon my lord pardon Our prison I has escaped Villain wild with rage he draws his dagger and rushes upon Saeib Kendrick holds his arm Hold hold

1:38:09What would you do? Osmond struggling Unhand me or by heaven Away, away fly fellow fly and save yourself Exit Saeib Kendrick releasing Osmond Consider my lord Happily to is not by his keepers fault that Osmond furiously What is to me by whose Is not my rival fled Soon will North umblins guards and circle my walls and force for me Yet that by heaven they shall not know Rather than resign her my own hand shall give this castle a prey to flames Then plunging with Angela into the blazing Gulf I'll leave these runes to tell posterity how desperate was my love And how dreadful my revenge Going he stops and turns to Kendrick

1:39:10And you who dared to rush between me and my resentment You who could so well succeed and saving others Now look to yourself Exit That look that threat That he seems so kind so grateful he smiled too Oh there is ever danger when a villain smiles Saeib enters softly Looking round him with caution Saeib in a low voice His Kendrick Oh no what brings Silence and hear me You have saved my life Nor will I be ungrateful Look at his vile Did the Earl Even so a few drops of this liquor should tonight have flavoured your wine You would never have drank again Mark me then When I offer you a goblet at supper drop it as by accident

1:40:12For this night I give you life Use it to quit the castle for no longer than till tomorrow there I disobey our Lord's commands Farewell and fly from Conway You bear with you my thanks Exit Can it be possible Is not all this a dream Villain villain Yes, yes, I must away But tremble traitor A bolt of which you little think hangs over and shall crush you The keys are still in my possession Angela should be the partner in my flight my prisoner to yet hold May not resentment may not regional 16 years captivity Oh no Angela should be my advocate And grateful for her own For her parents life preserved She can she will obtain my pardon Yet should she fail at least I shall drag down

1:41:13Osmond in my fall And sweeten deaths bitter cup with vengeance Exit Scene three The cedar room With folding doors in the middle and a large antique bed On one side is the portrait of a lady on the other that of a warrior armed Both are at full length After a pause the female portrait slides back and father Philip after looking again Advances cautiously Father Philip closing the panel The far of I proceeded without danger Though not without difficulty Your narrow passages by no means calculated For persons of my habit of body By my holy name I begin to suspect that the fool is in the right I certainly am growing Corpulent And now how shall I employ myself

1:42:15Sinner that I am why did I forget the bottle of sack The time will pass tediously till Angela comes And to complete the business Yonder is haunted oratory What if the ghosts should pop out on me Blessed sin-prigid there would be a tater-tater Yet this is a foolish fear Does yet scare say to clock and your ghosts always keep late hours Yet I don't like the idea of our being such near neighbors If Alice says true the apparition just now lives next door to me But the Lord forbid we should ever be visiting acquaintance Would that I had something to drive her out of my head A good book now a bottle of sack St. Augustine Where a cold venison pastry would be worth its weight in gold But in the chambers of these young girls One finds nothing good either to read drink or eat

1:43:20Now my last patroness the Baroness O'Drench Hard to hear a catalog of her grimes was quite a pleasure But she always confessed them over a sirloin of beef And instead of telling a bead swallow to bumper Oh she was a worthy soul But Huck Angela comes Asmond without What Alice Alice I say By St. David Tis the O' I'll get away as fast as I can Trying to open the door I can't go on the spring Lord forgive my sins Where can I hold myself? Ah the bed just the very thing Throws himself into the bed and conceals himself under the clothes Heaven grant that it may break down with me For low what a fall would be there my country then They come The doors unlocked

1:44:21Enter osmond Angela and Alice Osmond entering You have heard my will lady Till your hand is mine You quit not this chamber If that it must be so welcome my eternal prison Get a tunnel that shall not be My hero my guardian angels at liberty Soon shall us horn make these hateful towers tremble And your fetters be exchanged for the arms of Percy Beware Beware Angela Dare not before me Before you Before the world Is my attachment to disgrace? No Tiss on my pride for its object is deserving Long ear I knew him Percy's fame was dear to me While I still believed in the present edwe Often in his hearing have I swelled upon the thumberlands praise And chid him that he spoke of our Lord so coldly

1:45:21Oh that's all that I think of the man that seated beside me Was he who my envy to for his power of doing good Who my Lord for exerting that power so largely Judge then Osmond on my arrival here How strongly I must have felt the contrast What peasant names you as benefactor What beggar has become fitted by your bounty What sick man preserved by your care Your breast is unmoved by woe Your ear is deaf to complaint Your doors are barred against the poor and ratchet Not so other gates of onward castle They are open as their own is hard My hair stands on end to hear her Insulting girl This to my face Nay never bend your brows Shall I tremble because you frown Shall my eye sink because anger flashes from yours No I don't it'll become the broad Northumberland Amazement

1:46:21Can this be the gentle Timid Angela Wondering you that the worm should turn when you trample it so cruelly Oh Wondering more Air he was torn from me I clasped pass you to my breast And my heart called a sparkle that far Which flames in his unseasonally God fire lady Best me I hope you didn't burn yourself Silent old crone I have heard you calmly Angela Now then hear me Twelve hours She'll be allowed you to reflect upon your situation Till that period is elapsed This chamber shall be your prison In Alice on whose fidelity I can depend Your soul attendant This term expired Should you still reject my hand Force shall obtain for me what love denies Speak not

1:47:23I will hear nothing I swear that tomorrow sees you mine Or undone And skies Ring curses on me if I keep not my oath Mark that proud girl Market and tremble Exit Heaven be priced he's gone Trimble did he say Alas How quickly is my boasted courage vanished Yet I will not despair There is a power in heaven There is a passing on earth On them will I rely to save me The first may lady But as to the second he'll be of no use depend on it Now might I advise you to accept my lord's offer What matters it whether the man's name be Osmond or Percy And earth's an earl after all And though one may be something richer than the other Oh silence Alice Nor aid my turret's designs Rather instruct me how to counteract them

1:48:25You have influence in the castle Assist me to escape And be assured that Percy's gratitude and generosity I help you to escape Not for the best gown in your lady ship's wardrobe I tremble at the very idea of my lord's rage And besides Had I the will I have not the power Canry keeps the keys We could not possibly quit the castle without his knowledge And if the earl threatens to use force with you Oh Gemini What would he use with me lady Thratons Alice I despise his threats Erad Pellars Osmond's head will I plunge this pony odd in my bosom Holy Fathers A dagger Even now As I wandered through the armory My eye was attracted by its glittering handle Look Alice It's Baz Osmond's name and the point It's rusty with blood Take it away lady Take it away I never see blood without fainting

1:49:28Angela Putting up the dagger This weapon may render me good service But Oh What service has it rendered Osmond Happily towards this very pony odd Which drank his brother's blood Orch paced the fair breast of Avelina Said you not Alice That this was her portrait I did lady And the likeness was counted excellent How fair How heavenly What sweetness Yet what dignity And her blue speaking eyes No wonder that you admire her lady She was as like US1P to another But this morning you know I promised to show you her oratory And here I've brought the key Shall I unlock the door Do so good Alice Happily for a moment And they abstract my thoughts With my own sorrows Father Philip While Alice unlocks the door The way old woman never be gone I dare not discover myself in her presence

1:50:30Alice Having opened the folding doors An oratory is seen Richly ornamented With carving and painted glass Angela and Alice enter it This room has not been opened since my lady's death And everything remains as she left it Look here is her veil Her prayer book too In which she was reading on the very night Before she quitted the castle Never to return I'm all out of patience And that guitar How often have I heard her play upon that guitar She would sit in Yonda window for hours And still she played air so sad So sweet To be sure she had the finest voice that ever During the speech Angela, who at first looks round with curiosity Throws the veil carelessly over her face And taking the guitar from the table

1:51:32Strikes a few wild and melancholy notes Alice, whose back is towards her, turns hastily round Screams and rushes from the oratory Angela casts the veil in guitar upon the table And follows her What alarms you? Oh is it you lady? Let me dive I didn't take you for the ghost Your air, your look, your attitude All were so like the deceased countess that Well Well I'll not enter that room again in hurry I protest my hand trembled so that I can hardly turn the key How contagious is Tara The silly women's apprehensions have spread to my bosom And scarce going to look round without alarm The stillness too of evening The wavering and mysterious ludge which streams through these painted windows And Hawk Was the shriek of the screech hour which nests in the tower above

1:52:35Alice, having locked the folding doors Oh it was a sad day for me when I heard of the dear lady's loss Look at that bad lady, that very bad was hers Was it so? Oh how How often have I seen her sleeping in that bed And oh how like an angel she looked when sleeping I remember that just after her original Oh lord Didn't somebody shake the curtain Of sod It was the wind I declared made me tremble Well as I was saying I remember just after her original had set out for the Scottish wars Going into her room one morning and hearing her sob most bitterly So advancing to the bedside as it might be dus My lady says I with a low curtsy Isn't your lady ship well

1:53:35So with that she raised her head slowly above the quilt And giving me a mournful look Here Unseen by Angela Who is contemplating Reginald's portrait Father Philip lifts up his head and gives a deep groan She's a Maria The devil The devil The devil Exit Angela turning round How now? Father Philip rising from the bed It breaks under him And he rolls at Angela's feet Good heavens I'm unconcealed Attempting to pass him he detains her by her robe Stay dought to stay If you run I could never overtake you Amazement Father Philip The very same An art present the best friend you have in the world Daughter I came to save you To save me

1:54:36Speak Proceed Observe this picture It conceals a spring whose secret is unknown to all in the castle except myself Upon touching it The panel slides back And a winding passage opens into the marble hall Then we must proceed to the vault of this to be all A door is there concealed Similar to this An after threading the mazes of a subterranean labyrinth We shall find ourselves in safety on the outside of the castle walls Oh worthy worthy father Quick let us hasten Let us not lose one moment Hold hold not so fast You forget that between the hall and vestibule We must reverse many chambers much frequented at this earlier Wait till the castle's inhabitants are asleep Expect me without fail at one Keep up your spirits and out not of success Now I must away

1:55:36Lest the ore should perceive my absence Stay at one moment Tell me does passie I have apprised him that this night will restore you to liberty And he expects you at the fisherman's cottage Now then Farewell their daughter Good for her Till one Farewell Exit father Philip through the sliding panel Closing it after him This is thy doing God of justice Receive my thanks Yes passie We shall meet once more Shall meet never again to separate Those dreams shall be realised Those smiling golden dreams which floated before us And allens happy cottage Hand in hand shall be wandered together through life Partners in pleasure Partners in woe And when the night of our existence arrives Once spot shall receive our bodies One stone shall cover our grave Alan too And the worthy mord My parents, my more than parents

1:56:36To smooth the pillow of their age To gild their last hours with sunshine Her thought is heaven So glorious are my prospects that they dazzle me to the con And scarce can I believe them really to exist Oh gracious God Should my brain be bewildered by fancy Should I be now the sport of some deceitful dream Seal up my eyes forever Never let me wake again I must not expect the fry before one Till that hour arrives L'I neil at the feet of Yonder Saint That tell my beads And pray for morning End of the third act Act 4 of the Castle Spectre by Matthew Lewis This is a Libravox recording All Libravox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit Libravox.org Act 4, scene 1

1:57:38The Castle Hall The lamps are lighted Enter Father Philip There's no midnight When the old is already retired to rest What if I then should now to the ladies chamber Ah, I hear the sound of footsteps Enter Alice How Alice is it you? So so have I found you at last Father I've been in search of you these four hours Oh I've been so frightened since I saw you That I wonder I keep my senses So do I For I'm sure they're not worth the trouble And pray what has alarmed you thus I warrant you've taken an old clock Pinned against the wall for a specter Or discovered the devil in the shape of a tabigad Alice looking round and terror For the love of heaven Father don't name the devil Or if you must speak of him Pray mention the good gentleman with proper politeness

1:58:42I'm sure for my own part I had always a great respect for him And if he hears me I dare say he'll own as much Respect for the devil you wicked woman For that perfidious servant That crafty seducer Hush, hush Father you make my teeth chatter with fright For all I know he's within hearing For he certainly haunts this castle in the form of my late lady Form of a fiddle stick Don't tell me of your Father on the word of a virgin I saw him this very evening in lady Angela's bed In lady Angela's On my conscience the devil has an excellent taste But Alice Alice How dare you trot about the house at this time of night Propagating such abominable foreshorts One comfort is that nobody will believe you Lady Angela's virtue is too well known

1:59:44And on the sway that she wouldn't suffer the devil To put a single claw into her bed for the universe How you run on Lord bless me she wasn't in bed herself Oh was she not? No to be sure But you shall hear how it happened We were in the cedar room together And while we were talking of this and that Lady Angela suddenly gave a great scream I looked round and what should I see But the tall figure all in white extended upon the bed At the same time I heard a voice which I knew to be the Countess Evelinas Pronounced in a hollow tone Alice Alice Alice Three times You may be certain that I was frightened enough I instantly took to my heels And just as I got without sight of the door I heard a loud clap of thunder

2:00:44And a whole chamber shook as if tumbling into a thousand pieces Well done Alice, a very good story upon my word It has but one fault It is not true Oh it's my life father How can you tell anything about it Sure I should know best For I was there and you were not I repeated I heard the voice as plain as I hear yours Do you think I've no ears? Oh far from it I think you've uncommonly good ones If you not only hear what has been said But what is not? Huck the clock strikes twelve Tis late and I'm sleepy So shall bid you farewell for the present As to this wonderful story of yours, Alice I don't believe one word of it I'll be swarmed that the voice was no more like your ladies than like mine And that the devil was no more in the bed than I was

2:01:44Therefore take my advice Search your heart at rest And go quietly to your chamber As I am now going to mine Good night Good night Surely you'll not have the heart to leave me in this terrible situation Suppose Satan should appear to me when I'm alone Sinner that I am I should certainly die of the fright Good father you are a priest and holy man Your habit frightens the evil spirits And they dare not come near you Oh if you will but suffer me to pass the night in your company Oh monstrous Oh impudence unparalleled You naughty naughty woman What could put such thoughts in your head What's the matter now Does not my sacred habit inspire you with awe Does not the exemplary jastity of my past life Warn you to conceal such licentious desires

2:02:47Past the night with me indeed I'm shocked at the very thought Demence med Father as I hope to be saved No come not near me Offer not to embrace me I embrace you Lord Fellow I wouldn't touch you for the universe Was it for this that you still flattered my person Undeclared that nothing became a man more than a big belly Was it for this that you strove to win my heart Through the medium of my stomach That you used to come while anguishing every day With some licorice dish And while he squeezed my left hand tenderly Placed a sack pos it in the right Heavens how deep laid were your plans of seduction But mark me tempter in vain as the soup been salted The regu-seasoned and the pepper box Shaken with unspearing hand My virtue is prefugenced all your culinary spells

2:03:50The fairness of my innocence is still unblemished And in spite of your luscious tears And savery ashes I retire like a second saint Anthony Victoria's front temptations lists Exit There he's gone Dear heart dear heart What shall I do now This past twelve o'clock and stay by myself I dare not I'll even wake the laundry maid Make her sit up in my room all night And this heart if two women Ain't a match for the best devil in Christendom Exit Enter Saib and Hassan The earl then has forgiven me A moment longer and his pardon would have come too late Had not canryke held his hand By this time I should be at supper with Sinpita You are folly well deserved such a reward Knowing the Earl's hasty nature You should have shunned him to the first storm of passion was passed

2:04:53And circumstances had again made your ministry needful Anger then would have armed his hand in vain For interest the white man's god would have blunted the point of his dagger I trusted that his gratitude for my past services European gratitude Seek constancy in the winds Fire in ice Darkness in the blaze of sunshine But seek not gratitude in the breast of European Then why so attached to osman For what do you value him? Not for his virtues but his vices Saib Can there for me be a great cause to love him? Am I not branded with scorn? Am I not marked out for dishonor? Was I not free? And am I not a slave? Was I not once beloved? And am I not now despised? What man did I tender my service would accept the Negro's friendship? What woman did I talk of affection would not turn from the Negro with disgust

2:05:55Yet in my own dear land my friendship was courted My love was returned I had parents, children, wife Bitter thought in one moment all were lost to me Can I remember this and not hate these white men? Can I think how cruelly they have wronged me And not rejoice when I see them suffer? Attached to osman say you Saib I hate him Yet viewing him as an avenging fiend sent hither to torment his fellows It glads me that he fills his office so well Oh, Tis a thought which I would not barter for empires To know that in this world he makes others suffer And will suffer himself for their tortures in the next But say you be one of those whom he calls us to suffer How then? Hassan, I will sleep no more in the lion's stand My resolve is taken I will away from the castle and seek in some other service that security Osmond within

2:06:56What? Ho Help Lights there lights Hark surely toys the Earl Osmond rushes in wildly Save me save me There at hand all let them not enter Sinks into the arms of Saib What can this mean? See how his eyes roll How violently he trembles Speak my lord do you not know us? Osmond recovering himself Ha Whose voice Hassan's Insaiib too Here? Oh Was it then but a dream? Did I not hear those dreadful those damning words Still still they ring in my ears Hassan Hassan Death must be bliss In flames around the wreck

2:07:57Compared to what I have this night suffered Compose yourself my lord Can a mere dream unmaneu'd us? A mere dream Saced thou Hassan Was a dream of such horror Did such dreams haunt my bitterest foe I should wish him no severe punishment Mark you not How the egg you of fear Still makes my limbs tremble Rolls not my eye as if still gazing on the specter Are not my lips convulsed As were they yet pressed by the kiss of corruption Oh Twas a sight that might have bleached joys rosy cheek forever And strove the snows of age upon use Auburn ringlets Yet away with these tears Hassan Thou sets towards but a dream

2:08:59I was deceived by fancy Hassan Thou say it's true There is not There cannot be A world to come My lord Answer me not Let me not hear the damning truth Tell me not that flames await me That for moments of bliss I must endure long ages of torture Punch me rather in the thickest gloom of atheism Say that with my body must perish my soul For oh Should my fearful dream be prophetic Hark fellows Instruments of my guilt Listen to my punishment Me thought I wandered through the low brown caverns Were repose the relics of my ancestors My eye dwelt with awe on their tombs With disgust and mortality surrounding emblems

2:10:03Suddenly a female form glided along the vault It was Angela She smiled upon me and beckoned me to advance I flew towards her My arms were already unclosed to clasp her When suddenly Her figure changed Her face grew pale In a stream of blood Cushed from her bosom Hassan Twas Evalina Evalina Such is when she sank at my feet expiring While my hand grasped the dagger stoke crimson with her blood We meet again this night Marmered her hollow voice Now rush to my arms but first see what you have made me Embrace me my bridegroom We must never part again

2:11:06While speaking her form Withered away The flesh Fell from her bones Her eyes burst from their sockets Skeleton Lothsome And meager claps me in her moldering arms Most horrible Her infected breath Was mingled with mine Rodding fingers pressed my hand in my face Was covered with her kisses Oh Then Then how I trembled with disgust And now blue dismal flames Gleamed along the walls The tombs were rent a sunder Bands of fierce spectives rushed around me in frantic dance Furiously they nashed their teeth while they gazed upon me and shrieked in loud yell Welcome thou fretta side

2:12:07Welcome thou lost forever Hore burst the bands of sleep Distracted I flew hither But my feelings words are too weak Too powerless to express them My lord my lord this was no idle dream It was a celestial warning It was your better angel that whispered Ausmaned Repent your former crimes Commit not new ones Remember that this night should canryk Canryk Oh speak Drink you the poison Abedient to your orders I presented it at supper But here the cup reached his lips His favorite dogs praying upon his arm And the liquor fell to the ground And tasted God praise be heaven And my soul is lighter by a crime Canryk shall live good Sahib

2:13:09What though he quit me and betray my secrets Proofs he cannot bring against me And bear assertions will not be believed That worse should his tale be credited Long air per se can rest her from me Shall Angela be mine Angela At that name all again is calm in my bosom Hushed by her image my tumultuous passions sink to rest And my tears subside into that single fair Her loss I forget that I've waited to her arms through blood Forget all Save my affection in her beauty You forget too that her heart is another Oh my lord reflect on your conduct while it is your time Restore the poor Angela to liberty

2:14:09Resign her to her favoured lover Sooner will I resign my life Fellow you know not what you say My heartstrings are twisted around the made Air I resign her those strings must break If I exist tomorrow night I will pass it in her arms If I exist ha Went the doubt We meet again this night so so the specter You're had full words Be blotted from my mind forever Hassan To your vigilance I leave the care of my beloved Fly to me that instant should any unbidden footstep approach yon chamber door I'll to my couch again Follow me Sahib and watch me while I sleep Then if you see my limbs convulsed

2:15:11My teeth clenched my hair bristling In cold do's trembling on my brow Seize me rouse me snatch me from my bed I must not dream again Oh faithless sleep Why are thou two leaked with my foes There was a time when thy presence brought oblivion to my sorrows When thy poppy crown was mingled with roses Now fear and remorse thy sad companions I shudder to see the approach my couch Blood trickles from thy garments Snakes ride around thy brows Thy hands hold the well-known fateful dagger And plunges it still reeking in my breast Then do I shriek an agony Then do I start distracted from thy arms Oh how I hate these sleeping

2:16:13Friend of virtue oh How I dread thy coming Exit with Sahib Hassan alone Yes thou art sweet vengeance Oh how it joys me when the white man suffers Yet weak are his pangs compared to those I felt when torn from thy shores O native Africa From thy bosom my faithful somba Ah Dust thou still exist my wife Has sorrow for my loss traced thy smooth brow with wrinkles My boy too Whom on that morning when the man hunters seized me I left sleeping on thy bosom Say lives he yet Does he ever speak of me Does he ask Mother described to me my father Show me how the warrior looked Has my bosom still room for thoughts so tender Hents with them Fengents must possess it all Oh when I forget my wrongs may I forget myself

2:17:15When I forbear to hate these Christians God of my fathers Mayest thou hate me Ha Once that light a man moves this way with a lamp How cautiously he steals along He must be watched This friendly column will shield me from his regard Silence he comes Retires Can Rick enters softly with a lamp All is hushed The castle seems buried in sleep Now then to Angela Exit Hassan advancing It was Kendrick Still he moves onwards Now he stops Tis at the door of Angela's chamber He unlocks it He enters Away then to the Earl Christian soon shall we meet again Exit Seen to Angela's apartment

2:18:16Angela stands by the window which is open And through which the moon is seen Well, it's never a boy This tedious lingering hour Sure an age must have elapsed since the friar left me And still the bells strikes not to warn Percy Designed patience equal mine Just there too count the movements which divide us Just there too try the slowness of times pinions Which moved so swiftly when we strayed together on the Chevy it tells He thinks I see him now As he paces the Conway's margin If he leaves falls If a bad flotters He flies towards it For he thinks to the footstep of Angela Then with slow steps and bending head Disappointed He regains the fish's cottage Perhaps at this moment His eyes like mine are fixed on yonder planet Perhaps this sweet wind which plays on my cheek Is freighter with the size of my lover

2:19:17Oh, sign no more my Percy Soon shall I repose and safety on your bison Soon again see the moon shut her silver light on chaviert And herids green hills repeat the carol of your mellow horn How slow the lingering moments were He has impiti speed your flight To Chevy it tells her fresh and fair A can shout meets my longing sight Oh, then what rapture to well afford Once more thirst seems beloved to thee Where Percy's heart first told its lord He loved the last of low degree No sounding titles graced my name No bounty as kinsman's world might die

2:20:19But Percy's such a high born name But Percy's such not worth a per He sought a fond of faithful heart He found the heart he sought in me He saw her pure and free from mutt And loved the last of low degree The castle seems to be still already Would the fry had named an earlier hour By this I might have been safe in the fishers cottage Hawk surely I had someone to lock the door Oh should it be the oh should he not retire the monk arise The door opens How can Rick care speak what would you Enter Kenrick Softly lady if overheard I am lost And your fate is connected with mine

2:21:21Placing his lamp on the table What means this mystery this midnight visit Is the visit of a friend of a penitent Lady I must away from the castle the keys are in my possession I will make you the companion of my flight And deliver you safe into the hands of Percy The air we depart Kneeling Oh tell me lady Will you plead for me with one Whom to me alone owe sixteen years of hard captivity Rise Kenrick I understand you not Of what captive do you speak Of one whom by me has been most injured Who to you will be most dear This and lady to my strange narration I was brought up with osmond Was the partner of his pleasures the confident of his cares The later sprang solely from his elder brother

2:22:21Whose birthright he coveted whose superiority he envied Yet his aversion burst not forth Till ev'lina neville rejected his hand Be stowed hers with her heart unregionaled Then did osmond's passion overleap all bounds He resolved to assassinate his brother When returning from the Scottish wars Carry off the lady and make himself master of her person by force This scheme he imparted to me He fattered threatened promised And I yielded to his deduction Wretched man Condemn me not unheard Tis true that I followed osmond to the scene of slaughter But no blood that day and brood my hand It was the Earl who swords struck original to the ground It was the Earl whose dagger was raised to complete his crime Went ev'lina through herself upon her husband's body

2:23:23And we see the weapon in her own Dreadful dreadful His hopes disappointed by this accident Osmond's wrath became madness He gave the word for slaughter And reginald's few attendants were butchered on the spot Scares could my prayers and arguments save from his wrath His infant niece whose throat was already gourd by his ponyard Angela you're still where is that mark Mine Oh my deep powers Lady Tis true I concealed in Eddens' cottage the address of Conway There were you doomed to languish in obscurity Till alarmed by the report of his spies that Percy loved you Endredding your meeting with so powerful a supporter Osmond decreed your death a second time With his intention he sought your retreat But when in you he beheld ev'lina's living image

2:24:24He changed his bloody purpose He caused me to reclaim you from Alan and resolved By making you his wife to give himself a lawful claim to these possessions The monster Now that I know when he pressed my hand Why still my blood ran cold Tosnature that revolted at the Fratricides' touch Tosn my mother's spirit that whispered Love not my murderer Oh good good Kenrick And you knelt me for pardon You to whom I owe my life You to whom Hold oh hold lady How little do I deserve your thanks Oh listen listen I was the last quit the bloody spot Sadly I was retiring when I think grown struck my ear I spring from my horse I place my hand on Reginald's heart It beat beneath the pressure Here Osmond appears at the door Motions to Saib etc to retire And advances himself unobserved

2:25:26It beats It beats Cruel and your dagger Oh that would have been mercy No lady I preserved his life to rob him of liberty It struck me How strong would be my hold over Osmond While his brother was in my power And this reflection determined me to preserve him Having plunged the other bodies in the Conway's flood I place the bleeding arrows on my horse before me And convey to him still insensible to a retreat To all accept myself a secret There are attended his womens carefully And succeeded in preserving his life Lady Reginald still exists Here Osmond with a furious look draws his dagger And motions to stab Kinric A moment's reflection makes him stay his hand And he returns the weapon into the sheath Still exists say you My father still exists

2:26:28He does if a life so wretched can be termed existence While his swoon lasted I chained him to his dungeon wall And no sooner were his wounds healed Than I entered his prison no more Through a wicket in his dungeon door I supplied him with food And when in plenty of terms He sued to me for mercy Hasty I fled Nor gave an answer Lady near 16 years have passed Since in human voice struck the ear of Reginald Alas alas But the hour of his release draws near I discovered this night The Osmond seeks my life And resolved to throw myself on your mercy Tell me then lady will you plead for me with your father Thank you he can forgive the author of his sufferings Kinric you have been guilty cruel But restored me my father Aed us to escape And all shall be forgiven

2:27:29All forgot Then follow me in silence I will guide you to Reginald's dungeon This key unlocks the castle gates And air the cocked crows Safe in the arms of Percy Here his eyes fall upon Osmond Who is advanced between him and Angela She shrieks and sinks into the chair Horror the Earl Undone forever Miss Criant Within there Inter Saib Hassan Mule and Lark Hence with that traitor Confine him in the Western Tower Angela starting wildly from her seat You speak once more Kenric Where is my father? What place can seal him Let him not speak Away with him Kenric is forced off by the Africans Osmond paces the stage with a furious air While Angela eyes him with terror

2:28:31At lengthy stops And addresses her Nay Stifle not your curses Why should your lips be silent when your eyes speak Is there not written on every feature Ventions on the assassin Justice on my mother's murderer But mark me Angela Compared to that which soon must be thine These titles are sweet and lovely Knows thou the word parasite Angela Knows thou their pangs Who shed the blood of a parent Those pangs must be thine tomorrow This long concealed captive This newfound father Your brother Osmond Your brother surely you cannot will not Still doubt you that I both can And will

2:29:32Remember Kenric's tale Remember though the first blow failed Second will strike deeper But from whom must Reginald receive that second Not from his rival brother Not from his inveterate foe From his daughter His unbealing daughter To she who refusing me her hand Will place a dagger in mine To she whose voice declaring that she hates me Will bid me plunge that dagger in her father's heart Man man drive me not mad Osmond pointing to Reginald's portrait Look upon this picture Mark what a noble form How sweet how commanding the expression of his full dark eye Then fancy that he lies in some

2:30:34damp solitary dungeon Riding in death's agonies His limbs distorted His eyes strings breaking His soul Birthened with crimes from which no priest has absolved him His last words Curses on his unnatural child Who could have saved him But who would not Hoorable hoorable Yet if you still reject my offers Thus must it be Torture shall compel Kendrick To reveal what dungeon conceals your father And heir tomorrow dawns Shall Angela lie abride in my arms Or Reginald Of course at my feet Nay Sparing treaties Why should I heed your sorrows

2:31:34You've gazed unmoved upon mine Why should I be softened by your tears My never were dried by your pity Cold and flexible have you been to my despair So will I be yours Speak then Is Percy's love Or your father's life most dear to you Does the false mistress or the unnatural child Sound most grating in your ears Must Reginald die Or will Angela be mine Thine She will perish first You have pronounced his sentence And his blood be on your head Farewell Angela Detaining him and throwing herself on her knees Hold hold Oh go not go not yet Ratch that I am Where shall I fly for sucker

2:32:35Mercy Osmond Oh mercy mercy Behold me at your feet See me bathe them with my tears Look with pity on a creature Whom your cruelty has bowed to the earth Whose heart you have almost broken Whose brain you have almost turned Mercy Osmond Oh mercy mercy Lovely lovely Supplyent And why not profit By the present moment Why oh to cold consent What force may this instant give me It shall be so and thus Attempting to clasp her in his arms She starts from the ground suddenly And draws her dagger With a distracted look Oh wait Approach me not Dad not to touch me Or this ponyard Foolish girl Let me but say the word And thou art disarmed that moment But not by the Osmond

2:33:37Oh never by the Hadst thou the force of fabled giants Vainly was thou strive to rest this dagger from my hand Let this convince you how easily Attempting to seize it His eyes rest upon the hilt And he starts back with horror By hell The very Ponyard which Angela in an exulting tone Has that found me villain Villain Dost thou know this weapon No stow whose blood encrosts the point Murderer It flowed from the bism of my mother Within there Help Hassan and Alaric enter Oh god in heaven He falls senseless into their arms And they convey him to the chamber The doors locked after them Angela alone

2:34:39He paints Long made the villain where thy chains oblivion Long be it air he wakes commit to new crimes By father in Osmond's power Oh to the dreadful thought But now it must not shall not be I will to Osmond will promise to be his Will sacrifice my love My happiness my peace of mind Everything but my father Yet to bid an assassin rest upon my bosom To press that hand in my which pierced the heart of my parent Oh it were monstrous kneeling before Evalina's portrait Mother Blessed mother If indeed thy spirit still lingers amidst these scenes of sorrow Looking white as bare with pity Fly to my aid Oh fly and save my father She remains for some moments prostrate on the ground in silent sorrow The castle bell tolls the hour She raises herself and counts the quarters

2:35:41After which it strikes one Hark The bell tolls To the time which the monk appointed He will not tary But I must not follow him I will not fly and abandon my father Yet may not my flight preserve him Yes yes I will away to passy By the same passage which favors my escape His vassals may easily surprise the castle May seize Osmond air he affects his crime And tomorrow may see Reginald restored a freedom Tis domains and to his daughter Oh then sweet indeed will be my feelings Then only can my heart know joy When it throbs against her father's What was that? We thought the sound of music fluttered by me It seemed as some had struck the guitar I must have been deceived It was but fancy A plaintive voice sings within A company to buy a guitar La la by la la by

2:36:42Hatch the mighty ear Thy father is coming And soon we'll be here Heavens the very word which Alice The door too it moves and opens God me good angels The folding doors unclose And the oratoria scene illuminated In its center Stands a tall female figure Her white and flowing garments spotted with blood Her veil is thrown back And discovers a pale and melancholy countenance Her eyes are lifted upwards Her arms extend towards heaven And a large wound appears upon her bosom Angela sinks upon her knees With her eyes riveted upon the figure Which for some moments remains motionless At length the specter advances slowly To a soft and plaintive strain

2:37:45She stops opposite to Reginald's portrait And gazes upon it in silence She then turns Approaches Angela Seems to invoke a blessing upon her Points to the picture And retires to the oratory The music ceases Angela rises with a wild look And follows the vision Extending her arms towards it Stay lovely spirit! Oh stay yet one moment The specter waves her hand As bidding her farewell Instantly the organ swell is heard A full chorus of female voices chant Jubilate A blaze of light flashes through the oratory And the folding doors close with a loud noise Haven't protected me She falls motionless on the floor End of the fourth act

2:38:52Act 5 of the Castle Specter by Matthew Lewis This is a Librevox recording All Librevox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit Librevox.org Act 5 scene 1 A view of Conway Castle by Moonlight Interpursy and Motley In truth my lord You venture to near the castle Should you fall into Osman's power a second time Your next jump may be into a better world Oh there is no danger remotely My followers are not far off And will join me into moments warning Than fear not for me With all my heart But permit me to fear for myself We are now within bow shot of the castle The archers may think proper to amuse us With approval their skill And were I to feel an arrow quivering in my gizzard Probably I should be much more surprised

2:39:54Than pleased Good my lord Let us back to the fisherman's hut Your advice may be wise Gilbert But I cannot follow it Angela's escape may be discovered She may be pursued And in need of my assistance Than counsel not by retarine My fears have loosened Angela are too strong If flame was your burns in my bosom too ardent I'm sure no flame burning in your bosom Can give you so much pain As an arrow would give me sticking in mine And as to your fears of losing the lady I'd bet mine of losing my life against any fears in chrysendum How Gilbert Have you not promised to stand by me to the last Did you not say you could die in my service with pleasure Very true But lord If a man was always taken at his word The world would soon be turned upside down When a polite gentleman begs you to consider his house as your own And assures you that all he has is at your disposal He'd be in a terrible scrape if you began knocking down his walls

2:40:56Or requested the loan of his wife or daughters No no sir When I said that I should die in your service with pleasure I intended to live in it many long years Since to tell you the truth from a child I had always a particularly disliked to dying And I think that with every hour the prejudice grows stronger Good my lord let us be gone Air long I doubt not Hark Did I not hear No she comes not Heaven should the friar's plot have failed Failed And a priest and a pettico concerned in it Oh no a plot composed of such good ingredients cannot but succeed Oh Where I again seated by the fishers' hearth The wind blows cruel sharp and bitter For Shane Gilbert I'm not equal exposed to its severity Oh the flame in your bosom keeps you warm And in a cold night love wraps one not better than a blanket

2:41:59But that not being my situation The present object of my desires is a blazing wood fire And Venus would look to me less lovely than a smoking sack posset Oh when I was in love I managed matters much better I always paid my addresses by the fireside And contrived to urge my soft suit just at dinner time Then how I filled my fair ones ears with fine speeches While she filled my trencher with roast beef Then what figures and tropes came out of my mouth And what dainty's and tidbits went in To what have done your heart good to hear me talk And see me eat And you'd have found it no easy matter to decide Whether I had most wit or appetite And he was object of this voracious passion A person well calculated to charm both my heart and my stomach It was a lady of great merit Who did your father the honor to superintend his culinary concerns I was Gears 15 when she kindled a flame in my heart

2:43:00While lighting the kitchen fire And from that moment I thought on nothing but her My mornings were past in composing poems on her beauty My evenings and reciting them in her ear For nature had equally denied the fair creature And myself the faculty of reading and writing You had a successful help Why at length my lord A panderic owed upon her grace in frying pancakes Melted her heart She consented to be mine When oh cruel fortune Taking one night a drop too much Poor dear creature She never got the better of it I wept her loss And composed an allergy upon it Which has been thought by many persons of great judgment Not totally destitute of taste and subliminity It began thus Baked be the pies to coals Burn roast meat Burn Boyle or ye pots

2:44:01Ye spits forget to turn Cinderella's death Peace peace Say nothing near your under tower Oh yes certainly Two persons advanced towards us Yet they cannot be our friends For I see neither the ladies pennycoat Nor the monks punch Still the approach Though slowly One means on his companion and seems to move with pain Let us have tired and observe them Always sir I'm at your heels They draw back Intersayeeb conducting kinric Nay You're told up a while Now we are near the fissious cottage Good sayeb I need to must stop And feeble by osman's tortures My limbs refuse to bear me further Here lay me down Then fly to Percy Guide him to the dungeon And air tis too late bid him save the father of Angela

2:45:01Percy to motley Hark Did you hear? Yet to leave you thus alone Oh he'd not me Think that on these few moments depends our safety Angela's freedom Reginald's life You have the master key Phi then oh fly to Percy Percy starting forward City not Reginald Speak against ranger What of Reginald Ah look up Kendrick This Percy's self How Kendrick Kendrick sinking at Percy's feet Yes the guilty The penitented Kendrick Oh surely to us heaven sent you hither No Earl Percy That Reginald lives The Angela is his daughter Amazement And is his known to osman Two hours have scarcely passed Since he surprised the secret Tortures compelled me to a vow where Reginald was hidden

2:46:04And he now is in his brother's power Fly then to his aid Alas Perhaps at this moment his destruction is completed Perhaps even now osman's dagger Within there Alan herald Quick Gilbert sound your horn Motley sounds it Enter Alan Edrick Harold and soldiers Friends may I depend on your support While we break Oh well stand by you Oh Follow me then Away Yet stay one moment Percy to this grateful friend I have confided a master key Which will instantly emit you to the castle And to have described to him the retreat of Reginald Be he your guide and hasten All that paying He faints Alan and Edrick support him Look to him Oh he sings Behrmthirha Edrick And their tenders hurts

2:47:04To Saib Now on good fellow and swiftly Osmond despair I come Exit With Saib Motley herald and soldiers on one side While Alan and Edrick convey away Kinric still fainting on the other Seen too A vaulted chamber Enter Father Philip With a basket in his arm in a torch Conducting Angela Thanks to some Francis We have as yet passed unobserved Surely of all traveling companions Fear as the least agreeable I couldn't be more fatigued Had I run 20 miles without stopping Why this delay Good Father Let us proceed Err I go further lady I must need stop to take breath And refresh my spirits with the taste of this Cordial Taking a bottle from the basket

2:48:04Oh not now Think that Osmond may discover me And more your kind intentions This room you say Can seal as the private door Prithi, unclose it Let us from hence Wait till we are safe under Percy's protection And then drink as you list But not now Father In pity not now Well well become daughter All these women These women They might know uns comfort but their own Now where is the door How tedious seems every moment which I passed Within these hated walls Oh Yonder comes a light So so I found it at last Touching a spring A secret door flies open It moves this way By all my fears To Osmond In for the in Away for heaven's sake Excient Closing the door after them Enter Osmond into sign with the torch

2:49:06Osmond after a pause of gloomy meditation Is all still Within the castle As the silence of the grave Where are your fellows Sayyib guards the traitor Kenrick Moli and Alleric are buried in sleep Their hands have been stained in blood And yet can they sleep Call your companions hither A son offers to leave the torch Away with the light Its beams are hateful Exit a son Osmond alone Yes This is the place If Kenrick said true For sixteen years have the vaults beneath me Wrong with my brother's groans I dread to unclose the door How shall I sustain The beams of his eye when they rest

2:50:09Evolina's murderer How will his proud heart Swel with rage That meeting is a zirping brother Ah The beams of his eye must long Since it been quenched in tears The pride of his heart Must by this be subdued by suffering Great have been those sufferings In truth so great that even my hatred bends before them Yet for that hatred had I not cause At tournaments, it was an original That each eye was bent At court, it was to regionaled That each noble prophet, friendship Evolina too Ha That name, my expiring hate, revives Reginald Reginald For thee was eye sacrifice

2:51:09Oh when it strikes a second blow My ponyard shall stab sure Enter Hassan, Mulee, and Alaric with torches My lord, my lord Now, why this hast I tremble to inform you that Saib has fled the castle A master key which he found upon Kenrek And of which he kept possession Has enabled him to escape Saib, to gone All are false All forsake me Yet more, my lord He has made his prisoner the companion of his flight Osmond, starting How Kenrek escaped Tis but too certain Doubtless, he has fled to Percy To Percy? Then I must be speedy My fate hangs on a thread Friends, I have ever found G faithful

2:52:10Marked me now Opening the private door Of these two passages The left conducts to a long chain of dungeons In one of these, my brother still languishes Once already have you seen him Bleeding beneath my sword But he yet exist My fortune, my love, name, my life are at stake Need I say more? Each half on sheets is sword That gesture speaks me understood On then before I follow you The Africans pass through the private door Osmond is advancing toward it When he suddenly starts back Why roll these seas of blood before me Whose mangled course do they bear to my feet Fried aside

2:53:10Oh, it is a dreadful name Yet how preserve myself in regional It cannot be We must not breathe the same atmosphere Fate thy hand urges me Fate thy voice prompts me Thou hast spoken I obey He follows the Africans The doors closed after them Seen three A gloomy subterraneous dungeon Wide and lofty The upper part of it has And several places fallen in And left large chasms On one side are various passages Leading to other caverns On the other is an iron door with steps leading to it And a wicked in the middle Reginald Pale and emaciated In coarse garments His hair hanging wildly about his face And a chain bound round his body

2:54:13Lies sleeping upon a bed of straw A lamp, a small basket, and a pitcher Are placed near him After a few moments he awakes And extends his arms My child My evalina Oh, fly me not lovely forms They're gone, and once more I live to misery Thou art kind to me sleep Even now, me thought, I sat in my castle hall A maid, lovely as the queen of fairies, hung on my knee And hailed me by that sweet name Father Yes, I was happy Yet from not on me therefore darkness I am thine again My gloomy bride But not incensed Despair That I left thee for a moment I have passed with thee sixteen years

2:55:15Ah, how many have I still to pass You have flying up my bosom quite sweet hope Still speak to me of liberty, of light Whisper, that once more I shall see the mourn break That again shall my fever lips drink the pure gale of evening God, thou knowest that I have borne my sufferings meekly I have wept for myself But never cursed my foes I have sorrowed for thy anger But never murmured at thy will Patient have I been Oh, then reward me Let me once again press my daughter in my arms Let me for one instant feel again That I clast to my heart of being who loves me Speed thou to heaven, prayer of a captive He sinks upon a stone with his hands clasped

2:56:17And his eyes been steadfastly upon the flame of the lamp Angela and father Philip are seen through the chasms above Passing along slowly Be cautious father, feel you not how the ground trembles beneath us Perfectly well, and would give my best breederie To find myself once more on terra firma But the outlet cannot be far off, let us proceed Look down upon us blessed angels, aid us protect us I'm in fair daughter, and now away Excient Reginald, after a pause Does that adore which divides me from happiness? Often against that door have I knelt and prayed And ever knelt and prayed in vain Fearful, less my complaints should move him from his purpose My jailer listens not, replies not

2:57:18Hastely through yarn wicked he gives my food Then flies as if this dungeon held a serpent Oh, then how my heart swells with bitterness When the sound of his retiring steps has heard no more When through yarn lofty chasm I catch no longer the gleam of his departing torch How waste my lamp The hour of Kendrick's visit must long be passed and still he comes not How if death's hand has struck him suddenly My existence unknown, away from my fancy dreadful idea Rising and taking the lamp The breaking of my chain permits me to wander at large through the wide precinct sub my prison Happily the late storm whose peeling thunders were heard even in this abyss May have rent some friendly chasm Happily some nook yet unexplored

2:58:20Ah, no, no, no My hopes are vain, my search will be fruitless Despair in these dungeons reigns despotic She mocks my complaints rejects my prayers And when I sue for freedom bids me seek it in my grave Death oh death How welcome will thou be to me Exit the noise is heard of a heavy bar falling The door opens Enter father Philip and Angela How's this a door? It is bald in the outside That will forgive as it wasn't bolted on the end But I don't recollect surely I'm not What's the matter? By my faith daughter I suspect that I've missed my way Haven't for bid Nay if too so I shan't be the first man who with two ways has preferred the wrong

2:59:24Provoking And did I not tell you to chew the white hand passage Truly did you and that was the very thing which made me choose the left Whenever I'm in doubt myself I generally ask a woman's advice And when she's of one way of thinking I've always found that reasons on the other In this instance perhaps I've been mistaken But wait here for a moment and the fact shall be asserted But perhaps you fear being alone in the dark I fear nothing except osment Nay I've no more inclination to fall into his clutches again than your soul What would be the consequence? You would be married? I should be hung Now daughter you may think that I have a very bad taste But as I'm a Christian I'd rather be married 50 years than a hung for one little half hour Exit How thick and infectious is the air of this cavern

3:00:26Yet perhaps for 16 years has my poor father breathed non-pure Hark steps a quick and volatile the Roya comes but why in such confusion Reenter father Philip running Help help that follows me Angela detaining him What alums you speak His ghost his ghost let me go let me go let me go Struggling to escape from Angela he falls and extinguishes the torch Then hastily rises and rushes up the staircase throwing the door after him Angela alone Father father stay for heaven's sake He's gone I cannot find the door Hark towards the clank of chains a lie too it comes yet nearer Save me ye powers What dreadful form to tear I faint with terror

3:01:27Sinks almost lifeless against the dungeon side Reinterregionaled with a lamp He is gone Emaciated and stiff from long disuse Scares can I draw my limbs along and I strive in vain to overtake the fugitive Angela recovering herself Still is it there that fearful vision Reginald placing his lamp upon a pile of stones Why did Kenrakenchor my prison? Happily when he heard not my groans at the dungeon door He thought that my woes were relieved by death Oh When will that thought be verified Oh sunk his eye how wildly hangs his matted hair on his pale and furrowed brow Oh those are the furrows of anguish not of age I have oft wiped away tears but never caused them to flow oft have I lightened the prisoner's chains but never increased their berthin

3:02:31Yeah, I am doomed to chains and tears Each sound of his hollow plaintive voice strikes my heart Dead I accost him yet perhaps maniac no matter he suffers and the accents of pity will flow sweetly in his ears Now are dead and it rests my wife Safe fignons guys No thought of me molests like Wyatt Yet sure I wrongly At the hour of death thy spirit shall stand beside me She'll close my eyes gently and murmur Die Reginald and be a peace Hark had I not pardon give stranger Reginald starting wildly from his seat Does she she comes for me is the outward hand for vision Spirit of Evelina lead on I follow thee He extends his arms toward her staggers a few paces forwards

3:03:32Then sinks exhausted on the ground He faints pops expolias Still still see he revives Tis gone Once more the sport of my bewildered brain Starting up Powers of bliss look where it moves again oh say what art thou if Evelina speak oh speak Ha Named he not Evelina That look this dungeon too The emotions which is a voice it is it must be Father Father Father Falling upon his bosom Said you Manchu My daughter My infant who my left oh yes it must be true My heart which brings towards you acknowledges my child Embracing her And is it thus I find you Burned with chains no warmth no air no comfort

3:04:37Think of it no more my dearest But say how gained you entrance has osmond oh that name recalls my terrors Alas You see in me a fugitive from his violence guided by a friendly monk him your approach has frozen from me I wasn't devouring to escape we missed our way and chance guided us to this dungeon But this is not a time for explanation answer me know you the subterranean pastures belonging to this castle Whose entrance is without the walls I do Then we may yet be saved Father we must fly this moment Pussy the pride of our English youth waits me at the conway side Come then oh come Stay not one moment longer Has she approaches the door lights appear above Look look my child the beams of distant torches flash through the gloom Ha yet perhaps a shame of his desashion to spot the monk returns to seek me

3:05:42Grant heaven that it may prove so Osmond above Hassan guard you the door Follow me my friends The lights disappear Osmond's voice Undone undone Oh my father he comes to seek you perhaps you Oh so I'll teach redful for daughters lips If he seeks none but me I am happy But should your steps have been traced my child hark they come The gloom of yonder cavern may a while conceal you Fly to it hide yourself stir not I charge you What leave you oh no no Oh Dearest I entreat I am conjure you fly Fear not for me hark they're at the door Speed to the cavern speak not move not if possible breathe not

3:06:44Father oh father Farewell perhaps forever He forces Angela into the cavern then returns hastily and throws himself on the bed of straw Now then to hear my doom Inter osmond followed by mule and allaric with torches The door unbarred Softly My fears were false Low were stretched on the ground straws his couch a stone his pillow He tastes that repose which flies from my bed of down Wake regional and arise You hear osmond What brings you to this scene of sorrow Alas Hope flies while it gaze upon your frowning eyes Have I read its language or right osmond All right if you've read my hatred regional

3:07:47I bring you death What other present could you expect from me Have you not been ever a thorn in my path A speck in my sight Was not submit to your elder brother The galling lesson forever sounded in my ears And when I pray some favorite spot of these domains Some highbrowed hill or blooming valley Was not my father's answer still That will be your elder brothers Yes The first thought which struck my brain was I am a younger son The first passion which tortured my heart Was hate to him that made me one Have I deserved that hate You often injured me But as often I forgave

3:08:48You were ever my foe But I never forgot you were my brother Hypocrite Was I one when my weapon struck the fierce scot to the ground Who's sword already glittered above your head Was I one when as embarrassed by your armor you sank beneath the severance waves I sprang into the flood I seized I saved you Twice if I preserved your life Oh let it not be for my own destruction See my brother the once proud Reginal lies at your feet For his pride has been humbled by suffering Hear him a jurory you buy her ashes Within whose bosom we have both have lain Not to stain your hands with the blood of your brother Osmond aside He melts me in my own despite

3:09:49The funds of my eyes have been long dried up I have no tears that can soften No eloquence that can persuade But heaven has lightenings that can blast Then spare me osment Kenrick has told me that my daughter lives Restore me to her arms Permit us in obscurity to pass our days together Then show my last cy implore upon your head Heaven's forgiveness and eviliness It shall be so rise Reginald and hear me You mentioned even now your daughter No, she is in my power No, also that I love her How She rejects my offers Your authority can oblige her to accept them Swear to use it and this instant will I lead you to her arms Osmond she is your niece

3:10:51I have influence at Rome That obstacle will be none to me What is your answer? You hesitate Say will you give the demanded oath? I cannot disimble Osmond I never will How Reflect that your life Would be valueless if purchased by my daughter's tears Would be lothsome if embittered by my daughter's misery Osmond I will not take the oath Osmond almost choked with passion Tis enough To the Africans You know your duty Drag him to Yonder Cavern Let me not see him die Reginald holding by a fragment of the wall From which the Africans strive to force him

3:11:51Brother for pity's sake For your soul's happiness A bany's slaves away Angela rushes in wildly Hold off Hurt him not, he is my father Angela Here Daughter what means? Angela embracing him You shall live father I will sacrifice all to preserve you Here is my hand Osmond Tis yours but spare my father Osmond transported Lovely Angela How rash girl what would you do? Reginald Reflect Your uncle your mother's murderer remember Your life is in danger I must forget all else Osmond release my father and solemnly I swear Whole girl and first hear me kneeling

3:12:51God of nature to the I call If air on oddsman's bosom a child of mine rests If air she calls him husband Who pierces her hapless mother's heart That moment shall a wound by my own hand inflicted Hurt Oh hold and not your oath I Burn with rage Swear never to be Osmond's I swear Be repaid by this embrace Be it your last tear them a sunder Away Away I will not leave him Part them I say Ha What noise Enter Hassan hastily My lord all is lost Percy has stormed the castle and speeds this way Confusion Then I must be sudden Aid me Hassan

3:13:52Hassan and Osmond force Angela from her father Who suddenly disengages himself from Mule and Alaric Friend so near Villains at least you so buy my life dearly Suddenly seizing Hassan's sword Osmond employed with Hassan in retaining Angela While Reginald defends himself against Mule and Alaric Down with him rest the sword from him Alaric is wounded and falls Mule gives back At the same time Osmond's party appears above pursued by purses Hurt They come Dastardly villains Nay Then my own hand must Drawing his sword He rushes upon Reginald Who is disarmed and beaten upon his knees When at the moment that Osmond lifts his arm to stab him

3:14:54Evolina's ghost throws herself between them Osmond starts back and drops his sword Hurt What form is this Die Disengaging herself from Hassan She springs suddenly forwards And plunges her dagger into Osmond's bosom Who falls with a loud groan in faints The ghost fanishes Angela and Reginald rush into each other's arms Father The hot mine again Enter Percy, Motley, Saib, Harold etc Pursuing Osmond's party All stop on seeing him bleeding on the ground Hulma, preference Seawidlice, Objective Research Percy Dead Percy Percy, flying to her Dearest Angela

3:15:55My friend, my guardian angel Come Percy, come embrace my father Father, embrace the protector of your child Do I have in behold El Reginald Reginald, embracing him The same, brave Percy Welcome to my heart Live ever next to it A moment that O pays my sufferings And yet, Percy, that wretched man He parished by my hand Ark He sighs There is life still in him Life Then save him Save him Bear him to his chamber Look to his wound Heal it to possible At least gave him time to repent his crimes in errors Osmond is conveyed away Servants enter with torches And the stage becomes light Though ill-deserved by his guilt Your generous pity still is amiable But safe, her Angela

3:16:55What have I to hope Is my love approved by your noble father Will he Percy, this is no time to talk of love Let me hasten to my expiring brother And soften with forgiveness the pains of death And can you forget your sufferings? Ah, youth, as he had none Oh, in his stately chambers Far greater must have been his pangs than mine In this gloomy dungeon For what gave me comfort was his terror What gave me hope was his despair I knew that I was guiltless New that, though I suffered in this world My lot would be happy in that to come And old I'll wretch Whom hopeless woes oppress Whose day is no joy Whose nights no summers bless When pale despair alarms thy frenzied eye Screams in thy near

3:17:56Embedsy heaven deny Courthouse religion Strive thy faith to save Bend thy fixed clans On bliss beyond the grave How skilled he murmurs Banished darkness trust Think there's a power above Nor doubt that power is just Finny Epilogue Osmond by this arrived at Charon's ferry My honest saved And dad alive in Murray Hiddat I come the public doomed to know But come not uncompelt The war's my wo In now Oh pity friends my heart miss hap My shoulder felt a bow street runners tap Who while I shook with fear in every limb The spoke with accent stern and visage grim Mistress Quathy To me it's given in trust is To bring you straight before our law and justice For though to said tonight the whole town are

3:18:58You've killed on Osmond Alas Barrymore The fellow's mad Toss us amazed I spoke Lord sir I murdered Osmond for a joke The stagger free from blood will make it certain He died until the prompt to drop to the carton And now we're pleased to quit the scene of riot The man's gone home to sup and peace and quiet Finding that all I said was said in vain And Townsend still his first design maintain I thought to a best of life a shelter here And beg my generous friends to interfere But though the awkward nature of my case may spread some sight confusion over my face No terrors all my bosom I'll assure you Just is my cause and English is my jury Besides it must appear on explanation How very ticklish was my situation And all perforce his crimes when I relate Must own that Osmond well deserved his fate

3:19:59He did not propose pathetic pleading He stabbed my ma which was extremely ill-breeding And at his feet for mercy when I sued The odious ratch I vow was downright rude Twice his bold hands and my person dare to touch Twice one day Toss really wants too much And therefore justly filled with virtuous I to save my honour And protect my sire I drew my knife and in his bosom stock it He fell you clapped and then he kicked the bucket So parish still the ratch whose soul can know selfish delight while causing others woe Who blasts that joy the sweetest God has given And makes and how well love would make in heaven For bear their lawless liberty Nor seek forceded favours on that pale, overt cheek If thy warm kisses cost bright eyes one tear Kisses from loveliest lips are bought too dear

3:20:59Unless those lips would thine keep playful measure And that sweet tear should be a tear of pleasure Now as for Osmond At that villain's name I feel reviving wrath my soul in flame And shall one short in sudden pangs of vice To clear so base afort so gross of ice No To your bar dear friends for aid I fly But Osmond live again again to die Nightly with plaud it's loud his breath recall Nightly beneath my dagger see him for Give him a thousand lives And let me take them all End of the fifth act End of the castle specter A drama in five acts by Matthew Lewis