What I said, spoke, begged, or imprecated, Heaven knows--not I.But they stirred not! One moment more and they must lie trampled beneath my horse's hoofs,--he was already on his haunches for the bound,--when, wheeling half aside, I faced him at the wall.

It was at least a foot higher and of solid stone masonry, and as I did so I felt that I was perilling my life to save theirs.

One vigorous dash of the spur I gave him, as I lifted him to the leap.

He bounded beneath it quick as lightning; still, with a spring like a rocket, he rose into the air, cleared the wall, and stood trembling and frightened on the road outside.
"Safe, by Jupiter! and splendidly done, too," cried a voice near me, that I immediately recognized as Sir George Dashwood's.
"Lucy, my love, look up,--Lucy, my dear, there's no danger now.

She has fainted! O'Malley, fetch some water,--fast.