text:  For though habituated by the details of that cruel and desolating warfare to spectacles of horror--the youth--the beauty--the innocence--the agonies of Ulrica had touched him to the heart; nor was the tress of her fair hair worn next the heart of Don John of Austria more fondly treasured than the one this rude soldier had shorn from the brow of death in the ward of a public hospital albeit its silken gloss was tinged with blood!-- Scarcely a month had elapsed after the storming of Dalem when a terrible rumour went forth in the camp of Bouge (where Don John had intrenched his division of the royalist army ) that the governor of the Netherlands was attacked by fatal indisposition!--For some weeks past indeed his strength and spirit had been declining