92 THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 
that hung thickly in pearly beads upon 
the humble grass beneath it. 
“ But his agony was too intense to 
be enduring. Pain brought faintness, 
and faintness sleep. Then I had fatal 
authority over him. I called upon 
him to arouse, and be a man ; en¬ 
treated him to be as true to himself 
as was his mistress to him. I spoke 
to him of her frantic grief, of her 
horror at the holy violence about to 
be perpetrated, of her breaking heart, 
and quickly approaching dissolution. 
I bade him write to her the followino- 
O 
morning, and showed him the very 
spot to which her confidential servant 
repaired every day; that a letter 
