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ju up suddenly, she left the room

In the darkness of the apart the next half-hour; but fro was audible from this impressible creature, who combined

modern nerves with primitive emotions, and was doo the distressed, and to take her

scourgings to their exquisite extremity

The as open On this quiet, late su, whatever

sound arose in so secluded a district--the chirp of a bird, a call fro of a wheel--extended over bush and tree to

unwonted distances Very few sounds did arise But as Grace invisibly

breathed in the brown glooht wheels came in to her, accompanied by the trot of a horse on the

turnpike-road There seeress of the vehicle, which hat first drew her attention to it

She knew the point whence the sound proceeded--the hill-top over which

travellers passed on their way hitherward froed fro the floor, and bent her head over the -sill, listening with

open lips The carriage had stopped, and she heard a man use

exclamatory words Then another said, "What the devil is the nized the voice as her husband's