"Ah, if we could only do so!" "Come away with us," said Mrs.Buckley, with animation; "come away with us, and begin a new life.

There is Troubridge looking high and low for a partner with five thousand pounds.

Why should not Miss Thornton and yourself be his partners ?" "Ah me!" said Miss Thornton.

"And think of the voyage! But I shall not decide on anything; Mary shall decide." * * * * * Scarcely more than a week elapsed from the day that Mary came home, when there came a third messenger for old John Thornton, and one so peremptory that he arose and followed it in the dead of night.

So, when they came to his bedside in the morning, they found his body there, laid as it was when he wished them good night, but cold and dead.