The Wing and Wing

Chapter 22

"I have no dread,

And feel the curse to have no natural fear,

Nor fluttering throb, that beats with hopes or wishes,

Or lurking love of something on the earth"

_Manfred_,

By this time the day had materially advanced, and there were grave

grounds for the uneasiness which Cuffe began so seriously to feel. All

three of the ships were still in the Bay of Salerno, gathering in toward

its northern shore, however; the Proserpine the deepest embayed, the

Terpsichore and the Ringdove having hauled out toward Campanella, as

soon as satisfied nothing was to be seen in-shore of them. The heights

which line the coast, from the immediate vicinity of the town of Salerno

to the headland that ends near Capri, have long been celebrated, not

only for their beauty and grandeur, but in connection