Chapter 79 No.79

But gasping heaved the breath that Lara drew,

And dull the film along his dim eye grew.-BYRON.

The light broke partially through the half-closed shutters of the room in which lay Lord Ulswater, who, awakened to sense and pain by the motion of the carriage, had now relapsed into insensibility. By the side of the sofa on which he was laid, knel