--Shakspeare.
The water-courses were at their height, and the boat went down the
swift current like a bird. The passage proved prosperous and speedy.
In less than a third of the time, that would have been necessary for
the same journey by land, it was accomplished by the favour of those
rapid rivers. Issuing from one stream into another, as the veins of
the human body communicate with the larger channels of life, they soon
entered the grand artery of the western waters, and landed safely at
the very door of the father of Inez.
The joy of Don Augustin, and the embarrassment of the worthy father
Ignatius, may be imagined. The former wept and returned thanks to
Heaven; the latter returned thanks, and did not weep. The mild
provincials were too happy to raise any questions on the character of
so joyful a restoration; and, by a sort of general consent, it soon
came to be an admitted opinion that the bride of Middleton had been
kidnapped by a villain, and that she was restored to her friends by
human agency.
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