But, how is the old lady now?
I see she loves me no better than formerly." "She is sinking fast, Guy, and is now incapable of speech.

Before you came, she seemed desirous of saying something to me, but she tried in vain to speak, and now I scarcely think her conscious." "Believe it not, Ellen: she is conscious of all that is going on, though her voice may fail her.

Her eye is even now fixed upon me, and with the old expression.

She would tear me if she could." "Oh, think not thus of the dying, Guy--of her who has never harmed, and would never harm you, if she had the power.

And yet, Heaven knows, and we both know, she has had reason enough to hate, and, if she could, to destroy you.