MUSGRAVE

AND OTHER TALES.

HOPE & CO., PUBLISHERS,

16, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1851.

249. V. 465.

MUSGRAVE;

A STORY OF GILSLAND SPA.

CHAPTER XII.

"At length he took her hand, and pressing it,
And forcing through involuntary tears
A mournful smile affectionate, he said,
Say not that thou art friendless while I live!
Thou could'st not to a readier ear have told
Thy sorrows.

This day,

Lady, prepare to take thy lot with me."

Southey.

LEWIS GRAME had spent a night even more sleepless and wretched than Mary's; and not, like hers, succeeded by a refreshing, though short, repose. Worn out by vain attempts to sleep, he arose soon after sunrise; and remained for a long while

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