If a single link give way.


The melody acted irresistibly on the harmonious propensities of the friar,
who accordingly sang in his turn,--

For hark! hark! hark!
The dog doth bark,
That watches the wild deer's lair.
The hunter awakes at the peep of the dawn,
But the lair it is empty, the deer it is gone,
And the hunter knows not where.

Matilda and the friar then sang together,--

Then follow, oh follow! the hounds do cry:
The red sun flames in the eastern sky:
The stag bounds over the hollow.
He that lingers in spirit, or loiters in hall,
Shall see us no more till the evening fall,
And no voice but the echo shall answer his call:
Then follow, oh follow, follow:
Follow, oh follow, follow!


During the process of this harmony, the baron's eyes wandered from
his daughter to the friar, and from the friar to his daughter again,
with an alternate expression of anger differently modified:
when he looked on the friar, it was anger without qualification;
when he looked on his daughter it was still anger, but tempered