Ellen looked around her with amazement.
"Come," said she, seizing her lover's arm, and dragging him onward: "gracious heavens! I hope you haven't killed him.

Come, John, the time is short, and we must make the most of it.

That villain, as I tould you before, is a villain.

Oh! if you knew it! John, I have been the manes of your disgrace and suffering, but I am willing to do what I can to remedy that.

In your disgrace, Ellen will be ready, in four days from this, to become your wife.