The recolle of about three days and nights succeeding this is very dim in my mind. I recall some sensatio in that interval; but few thoughts framed, and no as performed. I knew I was in a small room and in a narrow bed. To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on it motionless as a stone; and to have torn me from it would have been almost to kill me. I took no note of the lapse of time -- of the ge from m to noon, from noon to evening. I observed when any oered or left the apartment: I could even tell who they were; I could uand what was said when the speaker stood o me; but I could not ao open my lips or move my limbs was equally impossible. Hannah, the servant, was my most frequent visitor. Her ing disturbed me. I had a feeling that she wished me away: that she did not uand me or my circumstahat she rejudiced against me. Diana and Mary appeared in the chamber once or twice a day. They would whisper sentences of this sort at my bedside -
"It is very well we took her in."
"Yes; she would certainly have been found dead at the door in the m had she bee out all night. I wonder what she has gohrough?"
"Strange hardships, I imagine -- poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer?"
"She is not an uneducated person, I should think, by her manner of speaking; her at was quite pure; and the clothes she took off, though splashed a, were little worn and fine."
"She has a peculiar face; fleshless and haggard as it is, I rather like it; and when in good health and animated, I fancy her physiognomy would be agreeable."
Never on their dialogues did I hear a syllable ret at the hospitality they had exteo me, or of suspi of, or aversion to, myself. I was forted.
Mr. St. John came but once: he looked at me, and said my state of lethargy was the result of rea from excessive and protracted fatigue. He pronou needless to send for a doctor: nature, he was sure, would manage best, left to herself. He said every nerve had beerained in some way, and the whole system must sleep torpid a while. There was no disease. He imagined my recovery would be rapid enough when onehese opinions he delivered in a few words, in a quiet, low voice; and added, after a pause, ione of a man little aced to expansive ent, "Rather an unusual physiognomy; certainly, not indicative of vulgarity radation."
"Far otherwise," responded Diana. "To speak truth, St. John, my heart rather warms to the poor little soul. I wish we may be able to be her permaly."
"That is hardly likely," was the reply. "You will find she is some young lady who has had a misuanding with her friends, and has probably injudiciously left them. erhaps, succeed i her to them, if she is not obstinate: but I trace lines of for her face which make me sceptical of her tractability." He stood sidering me some mihen added, "She looks sensible, but not at all handsome."
"She is so ill, St. John."
"Ill or well, she would always be plain. The grad harmony of beauty are quite wanting in those features."
Ohird day I was better; on the fourth, I could speak, move, rise in bed, and turn. Hannah had brought me some gruel and dry toast, about, as I supposed, the dinner-hour. I had eaten with relish: the food was good -- void of the feverish flavour which had hitherto poisoned what I had swallowed. When she left me, I felt paratively strong and revived: ere long satiety of repose and desire for a stirred me. I wished to rise; but what could I put on? Only my damp and b
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