A boat was instantly sent in pursuit of me, and a number of persons ran along the banks, all eager for my capture.

But being an excellent swimmer, I tried to elude them, and as I never appeared again, it was supposed I was drowned." "And Nizza, or as I ought now to call her, Isabella, was confided, I suppose, to the piper ?" inquired Leonard.
"She was confided to his helpmate," replied Thirlby, "who had been nurse to my wife.

Mike Macascree was one of my father's servants, and was in his younger days a merry, worthless fellow.

The heavy calamity under which he now labours had not then befallen him.

On taking charge of my daughter, his wife received certain papers substantiating the child's origin, together with a miniature, and a small golden amulet.