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Widoife and wedded maid, Betrothed, betrayer, and betrayed--SCOTT

Aurelia's first halt was in a arden, where she ventured to sit down to put on her stout leather shoes The children's toys, a ball and a set of ninepins lay on the floor! How o was it that she had htingale, close overhead, burst into a peal of song, repeating his one favourite note, which seeh my heart is broke, broke, broke, broke" The tears rushed into her eyes, but at a noise as of opening doors or s at the house, terror ain, and she hurried on to hide herself fro to increase, as she crossed the park, on turf dank with Maydew, and plunged deep into the thick woods beyond, causingbirds

Day had fully coh the tender green foliage, and illu strength again to pause and sit on a faggot, while gathering breath and considering where she should go Hoht Who could shield her but her father and sister? How she longed for their couardianship! But how reach theland never less reseems, rich and rare wandered unscathed for into use, had not dawned on the siination She knew there was a weekly coach froh Brentford, and that place was also a great starting-place for stage waggons, of which one went through Carminster, but her bewildered brain could not recall on what day it started, and there was an additional shock of despair when she re deas on her liht, a drowsy recollection of the children in the wood came over her, and she sank into a dreamy state that soon becaht sunbeam on her eyes, and found that this hat had war was also in her ears, and of calling cows to be milked She did not in the least knohere she was, for she had wandered into parts of the wood quite strange to her, but she thought she nition, so she followed the voice, and soon ca a great sheeted cow