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She shook her head, and he lifted her up; then, at a slow pace, went onith his load The air was now coround uncarpeted with vegetation there was reflected from its surface into his face the heat which it had i he had thought but little of the distance which yet would have to be traversed before Blooh he had slept that afternoon he soon began to feel the weight of his burden Thus he proceeded, like Aeneas with his father; the bats circling round his head, nightjars flapping their wings within a yard of his face, and not a hu within call

While he was yet nearly a ns of restlessness under the constraint of being borne along, as if his arms were irksome to her He lowered her upon his knees and looked around The point they had now reached, though far from any road, was not es occupied by Fairway, Sam, Humphrey, and the Cantles Moreover, fifty yards off stood a hut, built of clods and covered with thin turves, but now entirely disused The simple outline of the lonely shed was visible, and thither he determined to direct his steps As soon as he arrived he laid her down carefully by the entrance, and then ran and cut with his pocketknife an ar this within the shed, which was entirely open on one side, he placed his ht towards the dwelling of Fairway

Nearly a quarter of an hour had passed, disturbed only by the broken breathing of the sufferer, when an to animate the line between heath and sky In a few moments Clym arrived with Fairway, Humphrey, and Susan Nunsuch; Olly Dowden, who had chanced to be at Fairway's, Christian and Grandfer Cantle following helter-skelter behind They had brought a lantern and matches, water, a pillow, and a few other articles which had occurred to their minds in the hurry of the ain for brandy, and a boy brought Fairway's pony, upon which he rode off to the nearest medical man, with directions to call at Wildeve's on his way, and inform Thomasin that her aunt was unwell

Sam and the brandy soon arrived, and it was adht of the lantern; after which she beca rong with her foot Olly Dowden at length understood her , and examined the foot indicated It ollen and red Even as they watched the red began to assume a more livid colour, in the midst of which appeared a scarlet speck, smaller than a pea, and it was found to consist of a drop of blood, which rose above the smooth flesh of her ankle in a hemisphere