It was on a still evening in June, that Laura Montreville left her father\'s cottage, in the little village of Glenalbert, to begin a solitary ramble.
That labour of duty had been lessened by no extrinsic circumstance; for Lady Harriet Montreville was a peevish and refractory patient; her disorder had been tediou.
Her countenance was mournful, and her step languid; for her health had suffered from long confinement, and her spirits were exhausted by long attendance on the deathbed of her mother.
It was on a still evening in June, that Laura Montreville left her father\'s cottage, in the little village of Glenalbert, to begin a solitary ramble