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Therewith he hurried Aurelia down stairs, his wife being in such a state of deshabille that she could not follow He handed the young lady into the carriage, gave her a parcel of slices of bread and ood heart, Missie, we'll catch you up by the tiht!"

Off went Aurelia in solitude, within a large carriage, once gaily fitted though now somewhat faded and tarnished She was sorry to be parted froe for the introduction to my Lady, and to explain to her the wonders of the streets of London, which she did not quite expect to see paved with gold! She ate her exte to see houses and churches thicken on her, and hurrying to brush away her cruloves lest she should arrive unawares, for she had counted half-a-dozen houses close together No! here was another field! More fields and houses The signs of habitation were, so far froely like what she had before passed Could this be the right road! How foolish to doubt, when this was my Lady's own coach But oh, that it had waited for Mrs Dove! She would beg her to get in when the riders overtook her When would they? No sign of them could be seen from the s, and here were ain, or there reen exactly like it in the heart of London How h all these impressions in the course of the drive She was absolutely certain that she was taken through Brentford again, this time without a halt; but after this the country became unknown to her, and the road much worse It was in fact for the h that the four horses came to a walk Aurelia had read no novels but Teleination was not terrified by tales of abduction, but alared to ask the coach had been either worn out or removed; she could not open the door from within, nor make hiht began to come on; it was much later than Mr Dove had ever ventured to be out, but here at last there was a pause, and the swing of a gate, the road was sround On and on, for an apparently interirl, through the dark thicket, until at last she eain see the pale after-glow of the sunset, and presently she found herself before a tall house, perfectly dark, with strange fantastic gables and chiainst the sky