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but love triumphed in the end: he forsook the faith of his fathers, broke his vows, and became a renegade. In due course of time the wedding-day was fixed the ceremony was to be performed in that very chapel which had so often re-echoed the apostate's pious prayers for his suffering flock, and the bride, accompanied by her attendant maidens, approached the altar. The service was read, and just as the bridegroom was clasping the hand of his beloved, a fearful crash resounded, the rock was rent asunder, and every vestige of the chapel, and of those it contained, for ever disappeared. In its place stands the gaunt image of the grim friar,—an example and a sad warning to those who suffer their evil passions to prevail over their better judgment.

I remember one morning seeing the emperor much moved; he had been exhibiting a marble bust of the King of Rome, which had been sent to him by the Empress Marie Louise. He took us into his bedroom to inspect them, and we were