Nothing is more probable, under these circumstances, than that she should faint a second time on her way here.

A fall on the pavement, without any friendly arm to break it, might have produced even a worse injury than the injury we see.

I believe that the only ill usage to which the poor girl was exposed was the neglect she met with in the work-room." "You speak very reasonably, I own, sir," said I, not yet quite convinced.

"Still, perhaps she may--" "My poor girl, I told you not to hope," said the doctor, interrupting me.

He went to Mary, and lifted up her eyelids, and looked at her eyes while he spoke; then added, "If you still doubt how she came by that blow, do not encourage the idea that any words of hers will ever enlighten you.