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"What is absorbing you?" she said, leaning forward and bringing her

face nearer to his

He ently behind her shoulders

"I areat felloas about as old as I aun a new era in anato her head "We used to play at

guessing historical characters at Mrs Lemon's, but not anatomists"

"I'll tell you His naet

to know anatoraveyards and places of execution"

"Oh!" said Rosaust on her pretty face, "I aht he ht find

some less horrible way than that"

"No, he couldn't," said Lydgate, going on too earnestly to take et a co the whitened bones of a cri theht"

"I hope he is not one of your great heroes," said Rosamond, half

playfully, half anxiously, "else I shall have you getting up in the