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"Robert! I say, Robert!"

"Well!" said Robert, looking up

"Master and "

"Won't they?" said Robert, phlegmatically; "what a pity! Got 'em ready,

and I'll stop the dead-cart when it comes round"

Just as he spoke, the well-known rattle of wheels, the loud ringing of

the bell, and theout your dead!

bring out your dead!" echoed on the pale night's silence; and the

pest-cart ca with its load of death The

watch to proht out one long, white figure, and then another,

and threw thehastly heap

"We'll have three et to coht!" said the driver, as he took his place, whipped his horse,

rang his bell, and jogged along nonchalantly to the plague-pit

Sick at heart, Leoline dropped the curtain, and turned round to see

so at her elbow She had been quite alone when she

looked out; she was alone no longer; there had been no noise, yet soure, all in

black, with its sweeping velvet robes spangled with stars of golden

rubies, a perfect figure of incorace and beauty It had worn a