BETROTHED. EVELINE BERENGER. "The morning light was scarce fully spread abroad, when Eveline Berenger, in compliance with her confessor's advice, commenced her progress around the walls and battlements of her beleagured castle." Vol. xxxvii. p. 97. "SHE bears misfortune with intrepid soul. HIGHLAND WIDOW. KILCHURN CASTLE. "The now mouldering towers of Kilchurn."-Vol. xli. p. 129. THE ruins of this ancient fortress stand on a peninsula of the noble lake Loch Awe, about four miles from Dallmally, from whence the finest view is obtained. This castle was built about the year 1440, by the lady of Sir Colin Campbell, during his absence in the Holy wars. In this lonely residence she passed her time in anxious expectation of his return. At a later period it was greatly enlarged by the Earls of Breadalbane, who made it the chief residence of their powerful family. When the rebellion of 1745 broke out, it was occupied by an English garrison, placed there to secure this important Highland pass, and to preserve the tranquillity of the surrounding country. This castle, however, built originally, as was the custom of those days, of the strongest materials, but with no care now taken for its preservation, is fast yielding to the destructive hand of Time. 81. What does not fade? The tower that long has stood Shook by the slow but sure destroyer, Time, |