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Therewith there was a kind of groan further off, and as Aurelia felt a hand on her dress, her fight and distress at the duality were co for her, she eluded the out Harriet's hting up the whole roo two--yes, two! But it did not die away! In her haste, and in the darkness, she had poured the whole contents of the bottle on the phosphoric cotton, and dropped both without knowing it on a chintz curtain A fresh evening breeze was blowing in from the , open behind the shutters, and in one second the curtain was a fla up to tear it down, leaping on a table in theThe table overbalanced, the heavy iron curtain-rod ca e white face and head as well as on Ju the fire died down, quenched as suddenly as it began, and all was obscurity again

"Nephew, dear boy, speak," exclaimed Mr Belamour; and as there was no answer, "Open the shutters, Jumbo For Heaven's sake let us see!"

"Oh! what have I done?" cried poor Aurelia, in horror and round, while the opened shutters ad, with a fullcoat lay senseless on the ground, partly covered by the black fragments of the curtain, the iron rod clenched in one hand, the other ar snowy beard and hair hung over him, and an equally white pair of hands tried to lift the head Ju down, removed the fallen table, and come to his masters help "Struck head with this," he said, as he tried to unclasp the fingers frorazed blow close to the temple

"We irl's horror-stricken countenance, "Ah, child, would that you had been patient; but it was overtasking you! Call Aylward, I beg of you Tell her he is here, badly hurt What, you do not know him," as her bewildered eyes and half-opened lips implied the question she could not utter, "you do not know him? Sir Amyas--my nephew--your true husband!"