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 "We arrived at my Castle, the surgeon soon made his appearance, and, after examining the wound, gave us hopes that it would not prove mortal. The Gentleman did not recover his senses until the pain, which the probing of the wound occasioned, roused him from the insensibility that had overpowered his faculties, and enabled him to discover his daughter kneeling at the side of the bed, and bathing his hand with her tears. My child! he exclaimed—Gracious Heaven, I thank thee, my child is safe!"—He was desired not to speak, and after some inarticulate blessings on his deliverer, weakness compelled him to give over the attempt.

The two servants that lay in the wood when I first discovered the carriage, we found to be entirely deprived of life, and the post-boy had fled thro' the trees: I knew not therefore the names or quality of my guests, but every thing in their appearance and manners seemed to denote that they were of no contemptible rank. During three days, I saw the young Lady only at the bed-side of