72 GLENOWEN, OR THE

times his custom, went a part of the
way to mect her. His impatience to
communicate his own happiness, and
to tell Rosa about the doll, made him
forget he was too early. The evening
was however fine, and he resolved to

walk on, till he should meet her.

~He had proceeded about half way
down the village, when he perceived,
at a little distance before him, a poor
emaciated figure in a sailor's jacket,
hobbling along the side of the road,
with as much expedition as an enfeebled
frame and a wooden leg would admit
of. Before Charles could overtake him
he stopped, as if overcome with fatigue,
groaned heavily, and on perceiving him
threw himself on a bank beneath a
hedge, faintly exclaiming, ‘“ for the

love