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ALICE. A Dramatic Scene. By MISS MARY RUSSELL MITFORD.


Characters.

MRS. NEVILLE— HENRY— ALICE.

SCENE —A path by the side of a river. Henry in the foreground; Mrs. Neville and Alice under some trees at the side.

Henry. This is the spot so loved, so long unseen! The very spot! the brimming Loddon here, Winding through grassy fields, gives back the blue And dappled sky so brightly, that it seems Part of another heaven. There is the mill Thwarting its course — the old and rustic mill, With its white low-brow’d cot, and wooden bridge, That seems yet is not dangerous; there the church With its square tower; and nearer that vast pile Whose pointed roofs, and porch, and pinnacles, And carved and massive windows, give a date, Prouder than the huge oaks which overtop

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