She did not faint, though every limb had lost its power.

A moment's strength and energy alike returned, and she bounded forward.

"It is false!" she again exclaimed, and her parents started in alarm at her agonized tone; "false as the false villain that dared stain the fair fame of another with his own base crime.

Arthur Myrvin is not the father of that child; Arthur Myrvin was not the destroyer of Mary Brookes.

Go and ask Nurse Langford: she who hung over poor Mary's dying bed; who received from her own cold lips the name of the father of her child; she who was alone near her when she died.