I resisted him as firmly as before; but he was more determined; and I might have been reduced to the last extremity but for your arrival, or for the terrible disorder that has seized me.

But I have spoken enough of myself.

Tell me what has become of Amabel ?" "She, too, has got the plague," replied Leonard, mournfully.
"Alas! alas!" cried Nizza, bursting into tears; "she is so dear to you, that I grieve for her far more than for myself." "I have not seen her since I last beheld you," said Leonard, greatly touched by the poor girl's devotion.

"She was carried off by the Earl of Rochester on the same night that you were taken from Kingston Lisle by the king." "And she has been in his power ever since ?" demanded Nizza, eagerly.
"Ever since," repeated Leonard.
"The same power that has watched over me, I trust has protected her," cried Nizza, fervently.
"I cannot doubt it," replied Leonard.

"She would now not be alive were it otherwise.