"You have not resolution to fly from the danger which you counsel me to shun." "It is too true," replied Leonard; "but she is beset by temptations from which I hope to preserve her." "That excuse will not avail me," returned Nizza, bitterly.

"You cannot live without her.

But I have said enough--more than enough," she added, correcting herself.

"I must now bid you farewell--for ever.

May you be happy with Amabel, and may she love you as I love you!" As she said this she would have rushed out of the room, if she had not been stopped by Doctor Hodges.
"Whither so fast ?" he inquired.
"Oh! let me go--let me go, I implore of you!" she cried, bursting into an agony of tears.
"Not till you have composed yourself," rejoined the doctor.