Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete

BOOK I.

"Thee, hid the bowering vales amidst, I call." --EURIPIDES: _Hel._ I. 1116.

CHAPTER I.

Who art thou, fair one, who usurp'st the place Of Blanch, the lady of the matchless grace?--LAMB.

IT was towards the evening of a day in early April that two ladies were seated by the open windows of a cottage in Devonshire. The lawn before them was ga...