Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

188 DANGER IN THE DARK.
suffused with tears, and feelings were too deep for
utterance.
Mary Glidewell, though by nature unserious and
volatile, wept no less freely than the rest, but her
solemnity was of short duration; her mind soon reverted
to the amusing scene she had so lately witnessed
at the convent; and suddenly seized with a fit of
laughter, she broke in upon the solemnity and stillness
of the circle, by giving vent to her merriment in
ringing tones of mirth.
"What now, Mary 1" said Enola, looking up quite
surprised.
"Pardon me;" replied Miss Glidewell, "in my
wayward imagination, I yet see priest Dupin splitting
the wind 1"
This allusion brought an involuntary smile to the
lip of every one present, who had witnessed the flight,
and most unseemly plight of the terrified priest.
" He will hardly need to do penance very soon, I'm
disposed to conjecture ;" remarked Alonzo.
" 'T is his habit to leave that for others to do;" observed
Isadora Norwood.
"If I mistake not," returned Carleton, "he took a
small share of it to-night, after the fashion of flagellation;
at anyrate my well platted whip-lash, has considerably
changed its color since the tune it played to
his forced march. He took an air-line - but as good
fortune would have it, he didn't outsail me."
" I discovered you followed close in his wake."