Chapter 28
"He looks abroad, and soon appears, O'er Horncliffe-hill, a plump of spears, Beneath a pennon gay." _Marmion._ The sharp sounds of the supper-bell were ringing along the gallery, as Miss Plowden gained the gloomy passage; and she quickened her steps to join the ladies, in order that no further suspicions might be excited by her absence.--Alice Dunscombe was already proceeding to the dining parlor, as Katherine passed through the door of the drawing-room; but Miss Howard had loitered behind, and was met by her cousin alone. "You have then been so daring as to venture, Katherine!" exclaimed Cecilia. "I have," returned the other, throwing herself into a chair, to recover her agitation--"I have, Cecilia; and I have met Barnstable, who will soon be in the abbey, and its master."
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