senseless on the floor.

"Take her away," said Mrs. Crayton, "she will really frighten me into
hysterics; take her away I say this instant."

"And where must I take the poor creature?" said the servant with a voice
and look of compassion.

"Any where," cried she hastily, "only don't let me ever see her again. I
declare she has flurried me so I shan't be myself again this fortnight."

John, assisted by his fellow-servant, raised and carried her down
stairs. "Poor soul," said he, "you shall not lay in the street this
night. I have a bed and a poor little hovel, where my wife and her
little ones rest them, but they shall watch to night, and you shall be
sheltered from danger." They placed her in a chair; and the benevolent
man, assisted by one of his comrades, carried her to the place where his
wife and children lived. A surgeon was sent for: he bled her, she gave
signs of returning life, and before the dawn gave birth to a female
infant. After this event she lay for some hours in a kind of stupor; and
if at any time she spoke, it was with a quickness and incoherence that
plainly evinced the total deprivation of her reason.




CHAPTER XXXII.

REASONS WHY AND WHEREFORE.