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"Where am I?" she exclaimed, with a terrified look, as she strove to

raise herself on her elbow, and fell instantaneously back with a cry

of agony, as she felt for the first tiuish of the

wound

"You are with friends, dear lady!" said Sir Norman, in a voice quite

tre, for you shall

be saved"

The great black eyes turned wildly upon him, while a fierce spasm

convulsed the beautiful face

"O, ed shriek

of anguish, that thrilled even to the hardened heart of the dead-cart

driver, the girl fell back senseless again Sir Nor to his feet, and withEnglish knight, caught the cold form in his ar into the driver's seat,

when that individual indignantly interposed

"Co himself, you shouldn't

run aith et out of sley, what are you about to do?" asked Or

his excited friend by the arh key "Can't you see that for

yourself! And I'ue, if there

is such a thing as a doctor to be had for love or money in London"

"You had better have her taken to the pest house at once, then; there

are chirurgeons and nurses enough there"

"To the pest-house! Why ue-pit there, at once! Not I! I shall have her taken to ood felloill drive her