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36 may fancy my first fright was not much allayed when I had leisure to examine her.

"My dear young lady," I exclaimed "I'll stir no-where, and hear nothing, till you have removed every article of your clothes, and put on dry things; and certainly you shall not go to Gimmerton to-night; so it is needless to order the carriage."

"Certainly, I shall;" she said; "walking or riding—yet I've no objection to dress myself decently; and—ah, see how it flows down my neck now! the fire does make it smart."

She insisted on my fulfilling her directions, before she would let me touch her; and not till after the coachman had been instructed to get ready, and a maid set to pack up some necessary attire, did I obtain her consent for binding the wound, and helping to change her garments.

"Now Ellen," she said when my task was finished, and she was seated in an easy chair on the hearth, with a cup of tea before her,