LEND YOUR HAND TO THE WORK THAT'S NEAR, AS YOU LENT YOUR EE TO THE WEIRD THAT WAS FAR.

HAVE A CARRIAGE THIS NIGHT BY TEN O'CLOCK AT THE END OF THE CROOKED DYKES AT PORTANFERRY, AND LET IT BRING THE FOLK TO WOODBOURNE THAT SHALL ASK THEM, IF THEY BE THERE IN GOD'S NAME."-- Stay, here follows some poetry-- "DARK SHALL BE LIGHT, AND WRONG DONE TO RIGHT, WHEN BERTRAM'S RIGHT AND BERTRAM'S MIGHT SHALL MEET ON ELLANGOWAN'S HEIGHT." A most mystic epistle truly, and closes in a vein of poetry worthy of the Cumaean sibyl.

And what have you done ?' 'Why,' said Mannering, rather reluctantly, 'I was loth to risk any opportunity of throwing light on this business.

The woman is perhaps crazed, and these effusions may arise only from visions of her imagination; but you were of opinion that she knew more of that strange story than she ever told.' 'And so,' said Pleydell, 'you sent a carriage to the place named ?' 'You will laugh at me if I own I did,' replied the Colonel.
'Who, I ?' replied the Advocate.

'No, truly, I think it was the wisest thing you could do.' 'Yes,' answered Mannering, well pleased to have escaped the ridicule he apprehended; 'you know the worst is paying the chaise-hire.