It then
occurred to her, that, if successful in his leap, his
progress must have been finally arrested by the impassable
rock that terminated the ridge; in which case she might
perchance obtain a nearer sight of his person. With this
view she had removed the bushes enshrouding the aperture;
and, bending low to the earth, thrust her head partially
through it. Scarcely had she done so, however, when she
beheld me immediately, though far beneath her, with my
back reposing against the rock, and my eyes apparently
fixed on hers.
"Filled with a variety of opposite sentiments, among
which unfeigned alarm was predominant, she had
instantaneously removed her head; and, closing the aperture
as noiselessly as possible, returned to the moss-covered
seat on which I had first surprised her; where, while
she applied dressings of herbs to the wound of her
favourite, she suffered her mind to ruminate on the
singularity of the appearance of a man so immediately in
the vicinity of their retreat. The supposed impracticability
of the ascent I had accomplished, satisfied, even while
(as she admitted) it disappointed her.
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