14. DIGGING A GRAVE.

the br shiek oath, and how she’d feel it a
weight on her soft, pure, Christian heart for
ever more. He would see her at once, and
she saw hm. Considering the weak way she
was in, l thought it would have killed her,
but it did not, only she was, so to Says
maimed for life; she was crushed and soon
withered, as I told you, quite withered away};
of course we went down to the family hall,
a beautiful place wonst, but the drunkard’s
hall now ; all gone to wrack, all more or less
following the master’s example. The father’s
lot of ‘good fellows’ gathered round the
gon, and though bills and debts and dues were
as plenty as sand over the sea-shore, the
hounds were kept, and dinners and breakfasts
and. drinkings went on as bad as ever; the
: place well deserved the name Z got, of
“Madman'a Ball. i used to see her growing
paler and paler, and weaker, day by day;

and i in the mor nings sometimes, he’d kiss and