Farewell for a short time." "Farewell, for ever, my lord," she said, gently pressing his hand.

"We shall not meet again.

Your name will be coupled with my latest breath." "I shall be completely unmanned if I stay here a moment longer," cried the earl, breaking from her, and rushing out of the room.
As soon as he was gone, Amabel addressed herself once more to prayer with Solomon Eagle, and in this way an hour passed by.

The earl not returning at the end of that time, Solomon Eagle became extremely uneasy, every moment being of the utmost consequence, and summoning Mrs.
Batley, committed the patient to her care, and set off in search of Hodges.

He hastened to the doctor's house--he was absent--to Saint Paul's--he was not there, but he learnt that a person answering to the earl's description had been making similar inquiries after him.
At last, one of the chirurgeon's assistants told him that he thought the doctor was gone towards Cornhill, and hoping, accidentally, to meet with him, the enthusiast set off in that direction.