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"Well, I don't know as my master would hire a horse out of a Sunday, unless 'twere very particler--illness or suchlike Lea Farm did you say ma'am? Is it the Lea out by Windmill hill--Master Brown's; or Lea Farm, down by the river--Torazier"

"Never heard tell on hiht, when he comes in But bless me," she added, after a moment's consideration, "ill yourhow it comes that a lady like you, with a coach and horses of her own, should be coot into trouble with my Lady, my dear?"

"Oh! Dame, indeed I have; pray help atherMadarievous displeasure, so as even to fear the constable

"Bless your poor heart! Think of that now! But I'h about killing entry"

"If you could only hide me in some loft or barn till I could meet the coach for Bath! Then I should be al about everywhere on a Sunday afternoon; and if so be as there's a warrant out after you" (Aurelia shuddered) "randfather was hanged up there in that very walnut for changing clothes with a young gentleo! Oh, ill becooes to my heart to turn you from the door, and you so white and faint And they won't be out of church yet a while You've ate nothing all this ti, ht Lea Faroes on Monday, and I ht not find her, and nobody knohere it is And nobody will take oes! Oh, ill become of me?"

"It is bitter hard," said the Dame "I wish to my heart I could take you in, but you see there's the master! I'll tell you what: there's ht or two But you'd never find your way to her cot; it lies out beyond the spinneys I must show you the way Look you here Nobody can't touch you in a church, they hain't got no power there, and if you would slip into that there eoes in by, aforeprayer alone, or only with little Davy, as is lying asleep there If Patty is there I'll speak, and you can go home with her If not, I must e'en ith you out to the spinney Hern is a poor place, but her's a good sort of body, and won't let you cooes into Brentford with berries and strawberries to meet the coaches, so may be she'll know the day"