e this, which the nature of his eloquence was
peculiarly calculated to render solemn and impressive, Aram strove to
prepare his friends for the worst, and perhaps to cheat, or to steel,
himself. Ever as he spoke thus, Lester or Ellinor broke on him with
impatient remonstrance; but Madeline, as if imbued with a deeper and
more mournful penetration into the future, listened in tearless and
breathless attention. She gazed upon him with a look that shared the
thought he expressed, though it read not (yet she dreamed so) the heart
from which it came. In the words of that beautiful poet, to whose
true nature, so full of unuttered tenderness--so fraught with the rich
nobility of love--we have begun slowly to awaken,

"Her lip was silent, scarcely beat her heart.
Her eye alone proclaimed 'we will not part!'
Thy 'hope' may perish, or thy friends may flee.
Farewell to life--but not adieu to thee!"
--[Lara]

They arrived at noon at the house of Mr. Thornton, and Aram underwent
his examination. Though he denied most of the particulars in Houseman's
evidence, and expressly the charge of murder, his commitment was made
out; and that day he was removed by the officers, (Barker and Moor, who
had arrested him at Grassdale,) to York Castle, to await his trial at
the assizes.

The sensation which this extraordinary event created throughout the
country, was wholly unequalled. Not only in Yorkshire, and the county in
which he had of late resided, where his personal habits were known, but
even in the Metropolis, and amongst men of all classes in England, it
appears to have caused one mingled feeling of astonishment, horror,
and incredulity, which in our times has had no parallel in any criminal
prosecution. The peculiar turn of the prisoner--his genius--his
learning--his moral life--the interest that by students had been for
years attached to his name--his approaching marriage--the length of time
that had elapsed since the crime had been committed--the singular and
abrupt manner, the wild and legendary spot, in which the skeleton of
the lost man had been discovered--the imperfect rumours--the dark and
suspicious evidence--all combined to make a tale of such marvellous
incident, and breeding such endless conjecture, that we cannot wonder
to find it afterwards received a place, not only in the temporary
chronicles, but even the most important and permanent histories of the
period.

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