But if it's bad--if there's blood-poisoning and Radowitz loses his hand--that they say is the worst that can happen--I of course shall feel like hanging myself--everybody will, who was in the row.

But next to him, to Radowitz himself, whom should you pity more than--the man--who--was three parts to blame--for injuring him ?" His hoarse voice dropped.

They came simultaneously, involuntarily to a standstill.

Constance was shaken by alternate waves of feeling.

Half of what he said seemed to her insolent sophistry; but there was something else which touched--which paralysed her.