Where have you been ?" "You shall hear," replied Leonard, "though the relation will be like opening my wounds afresh.

On recovering from the terrible shock I had received, I found myself stretched upon a bed in a house whither I had been conveyed by Rainbird the watchman, who had discovered me lying in a state of insensibility in the street.

For nearly a week I continued delirious, and should, probably, have lost my senses altogether but for the attentions of the watchman.

As soon as I was able to move, I wandered to the lesser plague-pit, in Finsbury Fields, you will guess with what intent.

My heart seemed breaking, and I thought I should pour forth my very soul in grief, as I gazed into that dreadful gulf, and thought she was there interred.