I do not expect another lucid interval." "No," said the Vicar, "I feel it my duty to stay longer.

For my own sake too.

What he has let out bears fearfully on my happiness, Doctor." "Yes, I can understand that, my friend, from what I have heard of the relations that exist between your daughter and that young man.

You have been saved from a terrible misfortune, though at the cost, perhaps, of a few tears, and a little temporary uneasiness." "I hope it may be as you say," said the Vicar.

"Strange, only to-day Major Buckley was urging me to stop that acquaintance." "I should have ventured to do so too, Vicar, had I been as old a friend of yours as Major Buckley." "He is not such a very old friend," said the Vicar; "only of two years' standing, yet I seem to have known him ten." At daybreak the man died, and made no sign.