'I have come very far, it may be a hundred and fifty leagues, to see you.

I have waited all this night in your garden.

Will Miss Gilchrist not offer her hand--to a friend in trouble ?' She extended it between the bars, and I dropped upon one knee on the wet path and kissed it twice.

At the second it was withdrawn suddenly, methought with more of a start than she had hitherto displayed.

I regained my former attitude, and we were both silent awhile.