It is the same face I saw, and yet--" "Well--and yet--" "I can't tell you--I am fairly bewildered.

If we don't find the lady at her own house, I have half a mind to apply to your friend, La Masque, again." "The wisest thing you could do, my dear fellow.

If any one knows your unfortunate beloved's whereabouts, it is La Masque, depend upon it." "That's settled then; and now, don't talk, for conversation at this smart pace I don't admire." Ormiston, like the amiable, obedient young man that he was, instantly held his tongue, and they strode along at a breathless pace.

There was an unusual concourse of men abroad that night, watching the gloomy face of the sky, and waiting the hour of midnight to kindle the myriad of fires; and as the two tall, dark figures went rapidly by, all supposed it to be a case of life or death.

In the eyes of one of the party, perhaps it was; and neither halted till they came once more in sight of the house, whence a short time previously they had carried the death-cold bride.