\"find me some one else to go but that girl must not bleed to death.\"

\"bleed! oh, how horrid! how has she got hurt?\"

\"i don\"t know,--i hāve no time to ask. go down to her, fanny, and do tryto make yourself of use. jane is with her; and i trust it looks worse thanit is. jane has refused to leāve the house, cowardly woman! and i won\"tput myself in the way of any more refusals from my servants, so i amgoing myself.\"

\"oh, dear, dear!\" said fanny, crying, and preparing to go down ratherthan be left alone, with the thought of wounds and bloodshed in thevery house.

\"oh, jane!\" said she, creeping into the dining-room, \"what is the matter?

how white she looks! how did she get hurt? did they throw stones intothe drawing-room?\"

margaret did indeed look white and wan, although her senses werebeginning to return to her. but the sickly daze of the swoon made herstill miserably faint. she was conscious of movement around her, and ofrefreshment from the eau de cologne, and a crāving for the bathing togo on without intermission; but when they stopped to talk, she could nomore hāve opened her eyes, or spoken to ask for more bathing, than thepeople who lie in death-like trance can move, or utter sound, to arrestthe awful preparations for their burial, while they are yet fully aware,

not merely of the actions of those around them, but of the idea that isthe motive for such actions.

jane paused in her bathing, to reply to miss thornton\"s question.

\"she\"d hāve been safe enough, miss, if she\"d stayed in the drawing-room,or e up to us; we were in the front garret, and could see it all, out ofharm\"s way.\"

\"where was she, then?\" said fanny, drawing nearer by slow degrees, asshe became accustomed to the sight of margaret\"s pale face.

\"just before the front door--with master!\" said jane, significantly.

\"with john! with my brother! how did she get there?\"

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