"You must convey her to my residence in Great Knightrider-street," he added, to the porters.
"We will convey her wherever you please," replied the men, "if we are paid for our trouble." And they were about to close the curtains, when Nizza, having caught sight of the apprentice, slightly raised herself, and cried, in a voice of the utmost anxiety, "Is that you, Leonard ?" "It is," he replied, approaching her.
"Then I shall die happy, since I have seen you once more," she said.
"Oh, do not stay near me.

You may catch the infection." "Nizza," said Leonard, disregarding the caution, and breathing the words in her ear; "allay my fears by a word.

You have not fallen a victim to the villain who carried you away ?" "I have not, Leonard," she replied, solemnly, "I resisted his importunities, his threats, his violence, and would have slain myself rather than have yielded to him.

The plague, at length, came to my rescue, and I have reason to be grateful to it; for it has not only delivered me from him, but has brought me to you." "I must now impose silence upon you," interposed Hodges, laying his finger on his lips; "further conversation will be hurtful." "One question more, and I have done," replied Nizza.

"How came Bell with you--and where is my father?
Nothing has happened to him ?" she continued, observing Leonard's countenance change.