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"Then you are an incendiary as well as a traitor," said her Ladyship, with cold, triunity "This is work for the constable Here, Loveday," to her oo in the outer room, "take this person away, and lock her into her own rooive her up to justice"

"Oh,to her dress, "do not be so cruel! Oh! let o home to my father!"

"Madam!" cried a voice from the bed, "let aloneup in bed had wrenched his broken arain, just as Aurelia would have flown back to hi her away

Another defender, if she could so be called, spoke for her "It is true, please your Ladyship," said Mrs Aylward, "that Mr Belaentleman"

Jumbo too exclaimed, "No one knew but Ju and crieame is played out, e cannot stand for a moment; and if a lawyer like Aether astray or he grossly deceived you Or, as I believe, he trafficked with you to entrap this unhappy youth, whose person and house you have, between you, almost destroyed Reistrate to take depositions in the irl I will not have my son disturbed with your outcries"

Poor Aurelia's voice died in her throat Oh! why did not Mr Belamour come to her rescue? Ah! he had bidden her trust and be patient; she had transgressed, and he had abandoned her! There was no sign of life or consciousness in the pallid face on the bed, and with a bleeding heart she let the waiting-h the outer apart, reached her own chamber, heard the key turn in the lock, and fell across her bed in a sort of annihilation

The threat was unspeakably frightful Those were days of capital punishment for half the offences in the calendar, and of as to her scarcely less dreadful, of proaol fever Poor Aurelia's ignorance could hardly enhance these horrors, and when her perceptions began to clear theht frouilty