You ought to go see her at wanst." "I would, dear, an' my heart is longin' to see her; but I think it's betther that I should not till afther his thrial to-morrow.

I'm to be a witness against the unfortunate man." "Against her father!--against your own husband!" exclaimed Mave, looking aghast at this information.
"Yes, dear; for it was my brother he murdhered an' he must take the consequences, if he was my husband and her father ten times over.

My brother's blood mustn't pass for nothin'.

Besides, the hand o' God is in it, an' I must do my duty." The heart of the gentle and heroic Mave, which could encounter contagion and death, from a principle of unconscious magnanimity and affection, that deserved a garland, now shrunk back with pain at the sentiments so coolly expressed by Sarah's mother.

She thought for a moment of young Dalton, and that if she were called upon to prosecute him,--but she hastily put the fearful hypothesis aside, and was about to bid her acquaintance good-bye, when the latter said: "To-morrow, or rather the day afther, I'd wish to see her for then I'll know what will happen to him, an' how to act with her; an' if you'd come with me, I'd be glad of it, an' you'd oblige me." Mave's gentle and affectionate spirit was disquieted within her by what she had already heard; but a moment's reflection convinced her that her presence on the occasion might be serviceable to Sarah, whose excitable temperament and delicate state of health required gentle and judicious treatment.
"I'm afeard," said Mrs.M'Ivor, "that by the time the trial's over to-morrow, it'll be too late; but let us say the day afther, if it's the same to you." "Well, then," replied Mave, "you can call to our place, as it's on your way, an' we'll both go together." "If she knew her," said Mave to her friends, on her way home, "as I do; if she only knew the heart she has--the lovin', the fearless, the great heart;--oh, if she did, no earthly thing would prevent her from goin' to her without the loss of a minute's time.