Valperga Volume 3 (of 3)

CHAPTER I _The Witch of the Forest._ When Bindo had been released by the command of Castiglione from the hands of the Lucchese soldiers, he fled across the country; and, possessed with horror and despair at the issue of all his predictions, hastened to the only human being to whom he ever spoke his real sentiments, or in whom he placed any confidence. To the north of Lucca, where the mountain...