sity, she turned, with tears in her eyes,
to the fair object of her husband's regret; when a circumstance,
apparently trifling, involuntarily arrested her attention. A weasel,
creeping from under the altar, ran upon the bed, and passing several
times over the face of the entranced Guilliadun, so far incensed the
page, that with a blow of his stick he laid it dead at his feet, and
then threw it on the floor. The animal had lain there only a few
moments, when another weasel, coming from the same hole, ran up, and
attempted awhile to sport with it, and then, after exhibiting every
appearance of grief, suddenly ran off into the wood, and returned with a
flower of a beautiful vermilion colour, which it carefully inserted into
the mouth of the dead animal. The effect was sudden, the weasel
instantaneously got upon its legs, and was preparing to escape; when the
lady exclaimed to the page, to strike it again, and he aimed a second
blow, that caused the creature to drop the flower, which Guildeluec
instantly seized, and carefully placed between the lips of Guilliadun.
The plant had not lost its efficacy. The princess, awakening from her
trance, expressed her surprise at having slept so long, and then gazed
with astonishment at the bed on which she lay, at the walls of the
chapel by which she was surrounded, and at the two unknown figures, of
Guildeluec and the page; who, kneeling by her side, loudly expressed
their thanksgiving to the Almighty for what they thought her miraculous
resurrection. At length the good lady, having finished her devotions,
began to question the fair stranger respecting her birth and preceding
adventures, which she related with the utmost candour and exactness,
till the fatal moment when the discovery of Eliduc's prior marriage had
deprived her of sense and motion. The rest was better known to her
hearers than herself; and Guildeluec, more and more charmed with her
innocence, and frankness, after avowing herself, lost no time in
comforting her, by the assurance that all her hopes and wishes might now
be speedily gratified. "Your youthful beauty," said she, "might
captivate any heart, and your merit will fix for ever that of Eliduc,
who is unalterably attached to you, and whose grief for your loss was
such as to preclude all hopes of consolation. It is my intention to take
the veil, and abandon all claim to those affections which are estranged
from me for ever. In restoring you to the now wretched Eliduc,