My precious mother will be delighted to hear this.

Now, we will be free to act with old Cockletown and his niece; and if she does not turn out a good wife--if she crosses me in my amours---for amours I will have,--I shall let her, too, feel what my eye can do." Alice's screams, after his departure from the garden, brought out Sarah Sullivan, who, aided by another servant, assisted her between them to reach the house, where she was put to bed in such a state of weakness, alarm, and terror as cannot be described.

Her father and mother were immediately sent for, and, on arriving at her bedside, found her apparently in a dying state.

All she could find voice to utter was,-- "He was here--his eye was upon me in the summer house.

I feel I am dying." Doctor Doolittle and Father Mulrenin were both sent for, but she had fallen into an exhausted slumber, and it was deemed better not to disturb her until she might gain some strength by sleep.