Chapter 18 THE FORLORN HOPE.

"She whipped two female 'prentices to death,

And hid them in the coal-hole. For her mind

Shaped strictest plans of discipline, sage schemes,

Such as Lycurgus taught."-Canning and Frere.

The favourite dentist of the neighbourhood dwelt in a grand mansion at St. Norbert's, and thither were conducted Conrade and Francis, as victims to the