I feel it would do me good if I could pray as I used to do." "Well, well, all in good time," replied Judith.

"As soon as you are better, you shall go back to your father, and then you can do as you please." "No, no, I cannot go back to him," returned Amabel.

"I am the Earl of Rochester's wife--his wedded wife.

Am I not Countess of Rochester ?" "To be sure you are," replied Judith--"to be sure." "I sometimes think otherwise," rejoined Amabel, mournfully.
"And so my dear lord is gone to Oxford ?" "He is," returned Judith, "but he will be back soon.

And now," she added, with some impatience, "you have talked quite long enough.