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In extre moments of bodily or mental pain, Cytherea either flushed hot or faded pale, according to the state of her constitution at the moment Now she burned like fire from head to foot, and this preserved her consciousness

Never before had the poor child's natural agility served her in such good stead as now A heavy oblong table stood in theit between herself and Manston, her large eyes wide open with terror, their dilated pupils constantly fixed upon Manston's, to read by his expression whether his next intention was to dart to the right or the left

Even he, at that heated ony which shone froiven her by God as a means of defence Manston continued his pursuit with a lowered eye

The panting andbut the capture of his wife--ith a rush under the table: she went over it like a bird He went heavily over it: she flew under it, and was out at the other side

'One on her youth and pliant liiant size' But his superior strength was sure to tire her down in the long-run

She felt her weakness increasing with the quickness of her breath; she uttered a wild screa intensity seemed to echo for miles

At the same juncture her hair became unfastened, and rolled down about her shoulders The least accident at such critical periods is sufficient to confuse the overwrought intelligence She lost sight of his intended direction for one instant, and he immediately outmanoeuvred her

'At last!over it, seizing one of the long brown tresses, pulling her towards hi her round She writhed doards between his ar on the floor For the first time his action was leisurely He lifted her upon the sofa, exclaihtened little bird!' And then there was an end of his triumph He felt himself clutched by the collar, and whizzed backwards with the force of a battering-rarove, wild, red, and breathless, had sprung in at the open , and stood once ain in an instant A fiery glance on the one side, a glance of pitiless justice on the other, passed between the in the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite: 'Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord' A desperate wrestle now began between the two men Manston was the taller, but there was in Edward h muscle which the delicate flesh of the steward lacked They flew together like the jaws of a gin In aover and over, locked in each other's grasp as tightly as if they had been one organic being at ith itself--Edward trying to secure Manston's ar he had drawn fro to reach his knife