After all, I should not wonder if poor Bell," smoothing her long silky ears as she lay in the apprentice's arms, "should help us to discover her mistress.

And now," he added, "I shall go to Wood-street to inquire after Amabel, and will then accompany you to the pest-house.

From what you tell me the young chirurgeon said of the piper, I do not despair of his recovery." "Poor as his chance may appear, it is better, I fear, than Amabel's," sighed the apprentice.
"Ah!" exclaimed Hodges, in a sorrowful tone, "hers is slight indeed." And perceiving that the apprentice was greatly moved, he waited for a moment till he had recovered himself, and then, motioning him to follow him, they quitted the house together.
On reaching Mr.Bloundel's habitation, Leonard pulled the cord in the hutch, and the grocer appeared at the window.
"My daughter has not left her bed this morning," he said, in answer to the doctor's inquiries, "and I fear she is much worse.

My wife is with her.

It would be a great satisfaction to me if you would see her again." After some little hesitation, Hodges assented, and was drawn up as before.